I've just recently started looking into this, too. I saved some of the
recommendations that were made on this list, but I haven't found
anything that I really like.
Latex2html provides a Latex style file and a latex-to-HTML converter.
The Latex style is pretty nice -- you can specify URLs, cross-references
within and between documents, and conditional text that will appear only
in the HTML or the normal Latex output. Unfortunately, I haven't found
any way to convert the Latex to nice-looking text.
[ftp://ftp.cae.wisc.edu/hpux9/Text/latex2html-0.53.tar.gz]
Lametex was recommended for this purpose, but it doesn't understand a
lot of the stuff in Latex2html's style file. (In its defense, this is
not really lametex's intended use.)
[ftp://wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/lametex.tar.Z]
Linuxdoc-SGML is another system which uses SGML (HTML is based on SGML)
as its base format. It provides converters for HTML, Latex, and nroff.
You can generate text from the nroff, but it doesn't deal with cross
references yet. Also, I don't think it has conditional text like
Latex2html (which is very useful for a FAQ that will be read by people
who have no clue what URLs are, etc.). The HTML output doesn't look
quite as nice as Latex2html's (okay, so I'm being picky).
[ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/mdw/linuxdoc-sgml-1.1.tar.gz]
Both Latex2html and Linuxdoc are really close to what I want, but they
don't quite make it. If anyone has another solution to this problem,
please post it on this list.
- Derek
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