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From: John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
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I wrote (about LaTeX2HTML):

 > One of the things in its favor is the large user base
 > and responsive developers.

I guess that was two things.  :)

William M. Perry writes:

 >   I believe john was referring to _LaTeXinfo_ being dead, not latex2html.

Quite so...


Also in this thread, I included an URL for an effort called
Hyperlatex.  Although this looks kind of neat, it has a fatal flaw
that makes it currently unsuitable for my purposes.  That is, it
doesn't really handle math.  LaTeX2HTML makes gifs out of math, which
admittedly sometimes doesn't look great, but it's better than
a^2 = x^{2n}, which is what Hyperlatex currently does.

Still, it's interesting.  In particular, check out the following:

  A final footnote: The converter to HTML implemented in Hyperlatex is
  written in GNU Emacs Lisp. If you want, you can invoke it directly
  from Emacs (see the beginning of hyperlatex-1.4.el for
  instructions). But even if you don't use Emacs, even if you don't like
  Emacs, or even if you subscribe to alt.religion.emacs.haters, you can
  happily use Hyperlatex. Hyperlatex can be invoked from the shell as
  "hyperlatex," and you will never know that this script calls Emacs to
  produce the HTML document.

-J

