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LaTeX2HTML Version 2002 (1.62) JA patch-1.4

Available on the computers: Dante, Homer, Ovid, and Vergil

LaTeX2HTML is a conversion tool that allows documents written in LaTeX to be converted into the hypertext format (HTML) understood by World Wide Web browsers. It breaks up a LaTeX document into one or more components, and links them together so that they can be viewed using a Web browser.

Using the Software
To use LaTeX2HTML, at the system prompt type:

% latex2html file.tex

(where file.tex is your source TeX file to be converted). This creates a new directory called file which contains the generated HTML files, log files and possibly images. To view the result, use an HTML viewer on the main HTML file which is file/file.html. This file will contain navigation links to the other parts of the generated document.

Example Here is a file named 'paper.tex' which you can convert and display as an html file:

    \documentclass[12pt]{article}
    \begin{document}
    An example of a source text file. To emphasize text use the 
    \textbf{bold face} or \emph{italic} options.
    \begin{center}
    Have fun learning \LaTeX!
    \end{center}
    \end{document} 
You convert it by moving it to your public_html directory and invoking the command:

% latex2html paper.tex

It generates a directory name paper which contains a file named paper.html which can be viewed by your Web browser.

Documentation
Here is a simple Latex2html tutorial to get you started. A more extensive user's manual is available at: Latex2HTML

Technical Support
Help is available from UW Technology. Send a question to help@u.washington.edu if you need help with this software. (software installed for production 6/21/98)