Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Uwe Ziegenhagen <newsgroup@ziegenhagen.info>]

vasan999@hotmail.com schrieb:
> Because my previous thread had no reply that could help
> me, I start it again.
> 
> I am very depressed now with the following problem.
> 
> I have a set of html files, must be human readable (as some of the
> output tools produce human readable LaTeX)
> 
> that I want to convert to human readable latex.
> 
> The program by
> http://in.geocities.com/ad_rab/
> 
> produces human unreadable tex. and i could not see the compiled
> resulting dvi.
> 
> The gnu program produces human readable latex, but does not handle all
> the tags.
> 
> the C program by Faase ??? produces human readable latex but misses a
> few tags.
> 
> The C program is unreadable by me so I cant modify it.
> 
> On sourceforge there are two programs one in Perl and the other in
> Java.
> 
> The perl one does not run due to path problems.
> 
> The java one produces complicated latex, possibly human readable, but
> that does not compile so I could not see its quality.
> 
> Does someone have a program? I prefer a well documented and fully
> commented program that one can modify or one that can do the job
> without the need for understanding its operation.
> 
> Please help. The situation is very desperate.
> 
> Vasantha
> 
> Is there a html-merging tool that can merge a set of html files into a
> single html file and resolve the links and cross-references with
> minimal changes to the rest of the portions of the html, ie not
> scramble the rest of the file.
> 
> I know some awk/perl/sed/python/scheme/lisp will do it.
> 

XSLT is your friend, if the other tools don't work. Using XSLT you can 
easily write your own converter, given the HTML is not too messy and 
complicated.

Uwe