PDF output
Format for print vs format for screen.
HTML output
LaTeX to HTML converters
There are scores of these swarming around.
Options worth considering
TeX4ht
- URL
- http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html
- Pros
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- I tried it and it sort of works (but needs tweaking)
- is stable
- Cons
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- docs are a bit confusing
- customization may be hard
- will need to enforce slightly stricter syntax rules than LaTeX requires. E.g, all the curlies are mandatory in "\( T_{\mathrm{eff}} \)"
- is stable (not under active development)
- forced to go latex->dvi route so PDF figs need special conversion
PlasTeX
- URL
- http://plastex.sourceforge.net/
- Pros
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- modern
- clean design
- actively maintained (last release Oct 2008 as of March 2009)
- written in python, so customization should be easy for Will
- Cons
-
- haven't tried it yet
hevea
- Pros
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- modern
- semi-actively maintained (last release August 2007 as of March 2009)
- sample output looks OK, but HTML source is a bit of a mess. Lots of nested tables.
- Cons
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- written in Objective Caml
- haven't tried it yet
Not worth considering
The rest:
- latex2html
- Horrendous monolithic perl hack from the 1990s, not maintained and pretty broken
- t4h
- Old, semi-commercial, and output doesn't look great
User feedback
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