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NAME
html2latex -- convert HTML markup to LaTeX markup
SYNOPSIS
html2latex [opt ...] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
For each file argument, html2latex converts the text as HTML markup to
LaTeX markup. If no files are specified, a usage message is given.
Input will be taken from standard input for files named -. Output will
to a similarly named file with a .tex extension (html2latex recognises
.html extensions).
Options modify the action of html2latex. The options are:
-n
Number sections. -p
Place page breaks after the title page (if present) and the table
of
contents (if present). -c
Generate a table of contents. -s
Create no files -- LaTeX is output to stdout. -t Title
Generate a title page, with the title 'Title'. -a Author
Generate a title page, with the author 'Author'.
EXAMPLES
An example of use is
html2latex -n - < file.html | less
This converts file.html to LaTeX and pages through the output. The
sections (corresponding to heading tags in the HTML source) will be
numbered.
Another example is
html2latex -t 'Introduction to HTML' -a gnat -p -c html-intro
This takes input from the file html-intro, writing to html-intro.tex,
and adds a title page (with title Introduction to HTML and author
gnat) and table of contents with page-breaks after both. The sections
of the document are not numbered.
SEE ALSO
latex(1)
BUGS
Current the only HTML tags supported are: TITLE, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5,
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H6, UL, OL, DL, DT, DD, LI, B, I, U, EM, STRONG, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR,
DFN, CITE, LISTING. The only recognised SGML escapes are &.amp,
&.lt, &.gt. ADDRESS tags are handled badly.
The COMPACT attribute to a DL tag is not recognised. MENU and DIR
styles are not handled well. TITLE text are ignored.
Currently PRE tags are not handled at all.
The entire file is read into memory. For long HTML documents on
machines with little memory, this may cause problems.
CREDITS
Nathan Torkington adapted the HTML parser from NCSA's Xmosaic package
(file://ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic) and wrote the conversion code. The
HTML parser code is subject to the NCSA restrictions. The conversion
code is subject to the VUW restrictions. Enquiries should be sent via
e-mail to Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz.
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