Overview

  This document describes a LaTeX to HTML translator written in Perl.

The translator:

• breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by the user,
• provides optional iconic navigation panels on every page which contain links to other parts of the document,  
• handles inlined equations ( ), right-justified numbered equations (see equation 2), tables (see Table 1), or figures (see Figure 1), and any arbitrary environment,

• figures or tables can be arbitrarily scaled and shown either as inlined images or ``thumbnail'' sketches

• can produce output suitable for browsers that support inlined images or character based browsers (as specified by the user),
• handles definitions of new commands, environments, and theorems even when these are defined in external style files,
• handles footnotes, tables of contents, lists of figures and tables, bibliographies, and can generate an   index,
• translates cross-references into hyperlinks and extends the LaTeX cross-referencing mechanism to work not just within a document but between documents which may reside in remote locations,  
• translates LaTeX accent and special character commands (e.g. Å Øö £©¶) to the equivalent ISO-LATIN-1 character set where possible,
• recognizes hypertext links (to multimedia resources or arbitrary internet services such as sound/video/ftp/http/news) and links which invoke arbitrary program scripts, all expressed as LaTeX commands,
• recognizes conditional text which is intended only for the hypertext version, or only for the paper (DVI) version,
• can include raw HTML in a LaTeX document (e.g. in order to specify interactive forms),
• can deal sensibly at least with the Common LaTeX commands summarized at the back of the LaTeX blue book [1],
• will try and translate any document with embedded LaTeX commands irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically legal.