Overview

  This document describes the LaTeX2HTML translator which:

• breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by the user,
• provides optional, customizable iconic navigation panels on every page which contain links to other parts of the document, or other documents,  
• hadles inlined equations ( ), handles equation alignment ( ), right-justified numbered equations (see equation 2), tables (see Table 2), or figures (see Figure 2), and any arbitrary environment,
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  figures or tables can be arbitrarily scaled and oriented and shown either as inlined images or ``thumbnail'' sketches

  
  
  

• 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 LaTeX accent and special character commands (e.g. A Øö £©¶) to the equivalent ISO-LATIN-1 or Unicode 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 [1],
• will try and translate any document with embedded LaTeX commands irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically legal.
  
  
• can be configured to translate equations and/or tables either as GIF images or as HTML 2.1 or 3.0 markup, as browsers become available which are suitable for the task.
• links symbolic references across document segments which are independently processed.

  
  
  

A selection of documents illustrating the different contexts in which LaTeX2HTML has been used is available at
http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/manual/.