What is latex2html ?

latex2html is essentially a translator between the LaTeX language and html written by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds, UK.

Below are some of its highlights, adapted from the README file. 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, tables, or figures and any arbitrary environment,
• 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 accent and special character commands 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,
• will try and translate any document with embedded LaTeX commands irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically legal.

The latex2html program includes its own manual, which is also available via the WWW (latex2html manual on the WWW).

Further information is available on the WWW at the latex2html "Home Page", including an overview, the manual, bug reporting forms, etc etc.