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An Annotated TeX Source

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:18:44 GMT

Mahesh wanted to see the annotated source of the TeX document that generated the output shown here. There are two components in the source: document source, let us call it as test.tex. a custom configuration for TeX4ht, let us call it as my.cfg. Document Source \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{lettrine} \usepackage{lipsum,shortvrb} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \MakeShortVerb{\|} \def\hlink#1#2{\Tg<a href="#1">#2\Tg</a>} \begin{document} \title{Taming \TeX4ht [...]

TeX4ht Supports Lettrine

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:09:14 GMT

Raphaël Pinson has kindly contributed the code that enables TeX4ht to support lettrine package. (lettrine.sty helps to typeset dropped capitals in a LaTeX document.) This probably will solve the long standing problem of drop capital support in TeX4ht, even if all the options of lettrine package are not supported at this time. Hope, Raphaël will [...]

TeX4ht and BibLaTeX 2.2

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:08:26 GMT

TeX4ht has been updated to cope with the newest incarnation of biblatex ver. 2.2. All its 43 example files provided with documentation have been tested and seem to work fine. Each example file with html output plus all the auxiliary files generated have been archived and provided below for users to check for problems, if [...]

Jelly Bean on your Galaxy Nexus Phone

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:10:29 GMT

Galaxy Nexus phone comes with a lot of different firmware variants which are updated by Samsung except three which are maintained by Google. If you are fortunate to get a Nexus phone with Google maintained firmware, you will receive updates over the air (OTA) as soon as new releases are made. Samsung releases are usually [...]

TeX4ht and biblatex

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:17:39 GMT

The very powerful LaTeX bibliography processing package namely, biblatex.sty often clashes with TeX4ht. I do not have much knowledge about the innards of biblatex. However, I could fix problems found in biblatex.4ht consequent to two previous revisions. Now one more revision had taken place, as we can expect, TeX4ht fails to work with current version [...]

TeX4ht: Options

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:08:44 GMT

The following is a list a of options that can be submitted to TeX4ht when it is run at command line. These can also be provided as options when tex4ht package is loaded in a LaTeX document. -css to ignore CSS code, use command line option -css. -xtpipes to avoid xtpipes post-processing the output. This [...]

TeX4ht: Low-level Commands

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:28:34 GMT

There are four commands which are very useful to write custom configuration for TeX4ht. They are: \NewConfigure \Configure \HCode \Tg TeX4ht does not redefine environments or macros, instead, it inserts hooks into the definitions so that the original definitions remain undisturbed while hooks helping to insert HTML code at appropriate locations of content in the [...]

Software Freedom

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:12:41 GMT

September 18 is the day of software freedom, celebrated by people around the world who believe in the four basic freedom aspect of software — freedom to run, study, change and distribute copies with or without changes. It is the result of the techno-political resistance movement led by Richard Stallman (RMS) who is credited with [...]

KSSN: A Venerable Silent Mathematician

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:17:03 GMT

A funny incident happened when Prof KSS Nambooripad (KSSN) started his career as a faculty member in the math department of UC College, Alwaye in central Kerala. One of the students stood up and asked, why should they learn mathematics as he could not find any compelling reasons to learn it. As KSSN didn’t have [...]

TeX4ht: Configure Part 2

Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:12:11 GMT

Navigation Links for Sectioning Divisions \Configure{crosslinks} provides hooks to create navigation links across sub-documents created from a long document like book where chapters are broken into separate HTML documents or a long article where sections might be cut into separate documents for easy browsing. \CutAt{...} helps to split a long document at the desired section [...]