From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edd Barrett Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the best html to latex program on the market or the internet ? Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:33:32 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1193128412.906014.246500@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <1193090235.827063.9090@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <1193102770.482626.94830@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193135037 19362 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2007 10:23:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:23:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 12:23:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkGvR-0001at-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkGvJ-00052l-49 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:23:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.text.tex, alt.html, fr.comp.text.tex, de.comp.text.tex, gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.66.64.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1193128415 27542 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2007 08:33:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:33:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1193102770.482626.94830@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20071009 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.66.64.21; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.text.tex:360577 fr.comp.text.tex:93274 de.comp.text.tex:234291 gnu.emacs.help:153215 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:23:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48708 Archived-At: On Oct 23, 2:26 am, vasan...@hotmail.com wrote: > maybe I should post in european tex groups also > > On Oct 22, 2:57 pm, vasan...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > Basically, it should do all that any of the tools below and in > > addition, > > > 1/ > > human readable output that maintains the text lines of the source, ie > > does not scramble the text lines or insert newlines unnecessarily or > > removes them. inserts minimal latex elements. > > > 2/ > > maintains cross-links, ie convert > > but if the set of htmls is incomplete proceed with the assumption that > > the reference is there, ie dont delete the links or try to modify them > > or their addresses. One of the tool I tested is too smart in this > > respect and actually ruins the result. > > > 3/ > > proper conversion of images, tables, etc. No math mode involved in > > html. > > > 4/ > > Even an emacs lisp function could be written by a guru that can do the > > job. > > > 5/ > > Is there any commercial wysiwig tool ? > > > LaTeX etc > > > * html2latex is a program based on the NCSA html parser. Contact: > > Nathan.Torking...@vuw.ac.nz. > > * Another html2latex can combine several HTML files into a single > > LaTeX file, converting links between the files to references. External > > URL's can be converted into footnotes or into a bibliography sorted on > > URL. Contact: F.J.Fa...@cs.utwente.nl (Frans J. Faase) > > * Another html2latex implemented on Linux by yacc+lex+C. Also > > available from the TSX-11 Linux FTP site as nc-html2latex-0.97.tar.gz. > > Contact: naoc...@naochan.com (Naoya Tozuka) > > * htmlatex.pl is a perl script to do the conversion (may be moving > > soon). Contact: n9146...@cc.wwu.edu (Jake Kesinger) > > * There is also a sed script to convert HTML into LaTeX. Hi, I don't know if this can be of help: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Austin_J._Che/Extensions/LatexDoc This is something that we are looking into to allow researchers to distribute documents in both PDF and web-based (we hope). Thanks Edd