# TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext

TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-based applications through style files and postprocessors, leaving the processing of the source files to the native TeX compiler. Consequently, TeX4ht can handle the features of TeX-based systems in general, and of the LaTeX and AMS style files in particular.

This document relates mainly to configurations tailored for different variants of HTML, MathML, OpenOffice, DocBook, TEI, and CSS. The document is available for downloading in zipped format (osu, tug).[unzip]

• Table of Contents • Using the System • Calling Commands • Configurations • Installation • Resources • License • Acknowledgment • Index

## Using the System

Typical LaTeX source files can be compiled into standard HTML and XML formats in a manner similar to the way they are compiled into print formats, namely, through variations of the command ‘htlatex filename "options1" "option2" "options3"’. For instance,

htlatex filename
htlatex filename "html,2,info" "dbcs/!"
htlatex filename "foo,frames" "" "-p"
xhlatex filename
mzlatex filename
oolatex filename

In some platforms the double quotes should be replaced with single right-quotes, and in some cases they might be omitted.

For details, visit the calling commands section.

### References

The main features of TeX4ht are described in:

- M. Goosen and S. Rahtz with E. Gurari, R. Moore, and R. Sutor, The LaTeX Web Companion, Addison-Wesley, 1999 (German translation).
- Fabrice Popineau, Affichez vos documents LaTeX sur le Web avec TeX4ht, Cahiers GUTenberg 37-38, December 2000, 5-43 (French, PDF).
- Within the current document.
- In the .log files of the compilations.

The documents From LaTeX to MathML and Back with TeX4ht and PassiveTeX, LaTeX to XML/MathML, and A demonstration of TeX4ht may provide additional insight into the system (and some outdated details).

## Installation

To be installed, the system needs a port made up of native utilities of TeX4ht and of non-native utilities. The easiest way to establish an up to date port is to download an installed distribution of the system, and refresh it with the files provided here.

Establishing ports from scratch for Unix and MS Windows require additional effort, mainly because of the need to set up non-native utilities. Alternative ports for these and other platforms can be tailored in a similar manner.

Philip A. Viton discusses in details issues of installing TeX4ht under MikTeX and Scientific Word/WorkPlace, but many of the topics apply also to other platforms. Steven Zeil offers improvements for the above settings.

TeX4ht can be integrated into the WinShell graphical user interface of Ingo H. de Boer for working with TeX. Steve Mayer programmed a graphical user interface for a set of converters on MS Windows, supporting also TeX4ht.

trouble shooting | Q/A | bug fixes

## Resources

Languages: | LaTeX/TeX, HTML, XML/XSLT, MathML, DocBook, TEI, Style Sheets, DTDs, Validators
Converters into HTML/XML: | BibHTML 1, Bib2HTML 2, Bib2HTML 3, Bib2HTML 4, Bib2HTML 5, BibTeX2HTML 6, Dlh 7, Euromath 8, GELLMU 9, HEVEA 10, HTeX 11, HtmlTeX 12, HTMX 13, HyperLaTeX 14, HyperTeX 15, Itex2mml 16, LaTeX2HTML 17, LaTeX2man 18, Ltoh 19, Ltx2x 20, Math2HTML 21, MicroPress TeXpider 22, Omega 23, pyLaTeX 24, Selathco 25, TeX2HTML 26, TeX2Page 27, TeX2RTF 28, Texi2HTML 29, Texi2www 30 , TeXPort WEB 31, Tth 32, Vulcanize 33
Backward Converters: | Gf 1, Htex 2, HTML2LaTeX 3, HTML2LaTeX 4, HTML2LaTeX 5, HTML2TeX 6, JadeTeX 7, Passive TeX 8, SGML2TeX 9, TeXML 10, TypeHTML 11, XMLTeX 12, XT 13, Brute Force 14
Converters for other formats: | Dvi2bitmap 1, Dvipdfm 2, MimeTeX 3, ltx2rtf 4, LEQ 5, PdfTeX 6, Plain2 7, LaTeX to ... 8
Conversion to Bitmaps | math on the web | web publishing with LaTeX | conversion services

## License

TeX4ht is provided under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). However, it is allowed to modify the files without changing their names, if the signatures of the files are modified (see copyright notices within the files).

## Acknowledgment

I am very grateful for the suggestions, contributions, and bug reports offered by many people. In particular, thanks go to Gertjan Klein and Sebastian Rahtz who got deeply involved in the project for long periods of time, and to Philip Viton for his documentation.

Eitan M. Gurari
gurari@cis.ohio-state.edu
April 12, 2003