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TtH installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Dec 15 17:44:34 1998
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Cc: cfyi@MIT.EDU, watko@MIT.EDU, vingram@MIT.EDU, merritt@MIT.EDU,
web-agents@MIT.EDU, jmorzins@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:41:26 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed TtH (Tex to HTHL) on Athena, for Sun, SGI and
Linux/NetBSD. TtH is a translator that converts Tex and Latex files to
HTML. It is designed to handle mathematical expressions and notation
and is very simple to use. However you most likely will need to launch
Netscape in a special way in order to make it load an X resource that
forces laoding of mathematical fonts. To use it on a Tex or Latex
file, do:
add tth; l2h myfile (the file should have a .tex extension, like "myfile.tex",
but omit this on the command line)
This will produce an HTML file myfile.html, that can be inserted into Web
pages. The distribution also includes a couple of utility scripts: ps2gif,
which converts PostScript to gif images, and latex2gif, which converts Latex
to gif. Usage syntax:
ps2gif myfile.ps mynewfile.gif
latex2gif myfile (assumes myfile is a latex file naked myfile.tex -> produces
myfile.gif)
There is a man page for tth (the actual binary- it has a slightly different
command-line syntax than the l2h script), as well as a User's Guide at
http://web.mit.edu/tth/www/tth_manual.html. The author has a page at
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/, and there are a couple of sample
files in /mit/tth_v1.95/distrib/examples; ex2.tex was generated from Maple
but had to be hand-edited before conversion to display properly.
Installation/configuration issues can be reported directly to me.
Alex
