Electronic Publishing Tools

source /home/linnell/ravik

This will set up your paths correctly. Then if your tex file is myfile.tex

latex2html myfile

will produce a directory in your current directory called myfile. Then you can view what l2h has produced by clicking netscape on myfile/myfile.html. However to get the best features of latex2html (in particular fewer gif's), perform the command

latex2html -no_math -html_version 3.2,math myfile

Notes

• l2h only works well with LaTeX commands; it is not good with plain TeX commands. One should write in a strict LaTeX style: use braces more liberally than normal. Thus

  $\mathbf v \mathbb Q$

  will not work. Write instead

  $\mathbf {v} \mathbb {Q}$

  Also it is best to use LaTeX2e as opposed to old LaTeX, so your source file should start out as \documentclass.

• Documentation for l2h: html, pdf (746K)
  

Related commands

• To use postscript Computer Modern instead of the regular bitmapped Computer Modern fonts on our Unix systems, perform the command (assuming you have the file myfile.dvi)
  dvips -Ppdf myfile
  This will produce the file myfile.ps, and will give better pdf documents after Acrobat Distiller has been used than using the regular bitmapped fonts. Also you may want to use the -G0 switch especially if you are using Times Roman and mathptm fonts; thus
  dvips -Ppdf -G0 myfile

• To check your HTML documents, use the command weblint myfile.html
• To find out more about weblint, use the command man weblint

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Revision Date: Thu Jan 3 21:32:31 EST 2002