Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[vasan999]

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.

Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Tyler]

Have you tried Google with the following search terms: html latex?

Two links pop up right away

1) http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html

2) http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/html2tex.html

I suggest you use those as a starting point. Also keep in mind that
you may have to do some "work" to have them formatted the way you
want.  These tools will likely help as a starting point, but I have
never used them myself.

t.

Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Tyler]

Also forgot to mention....you only waited what appears to be 3 minutes
for a reply before posting again. Patience is a virtue my friend....

t.

Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

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

Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Aandi Inston]

vasan999@hotmail.com wrote:

>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.
>


Why? I don't see the PostScript connection.

Such blatant cross posting, while it might seem the obvious way to get
more people to see it and reply, might actually be extremely
counterproductive...
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Re: Desperately need help for html to LaTeX conversion

[Bastien]

vasan999@hotmail.com writes:

> Because my previous thread had no reply that could help me, I start it
> again.

Yes, and you could do this over and over until the Death comes and
deprives us from your electronic company.

> 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.

If this is something that you want, you probably have the nice option of
*not wanting* it.  Don't get depressed at thing you can easily drop out.

> http://in.geocities.com/ad_rab/

Good to know geocities is still alive!

> the C program by Faase ??? produces human readable latex but misses a
> few tags.

Hey!  You seem to have a *few* pages to convert and complain about some
random software missing a *few* tags?

> 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.

HTML is messy, LaTeX is pretty.  Good challenge for a programmer - why
don't you write your own piece of code and spread the world about it?

> Please help. The situation is very desperate.

Did my best.

> I know some awk/perl/sed/python/scheme/lisp will do it.

Big Emacs is watching you! :)

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Bastien