TeX4ht: Low-level Commands

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 [...]

Syndicated 2010-09-22 10:03:49 from Blue Danube

Software Freedom

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 [...]

Syndicated 2010-09-19 05:25:02 from Blue Danube

KSSN: A Venerable Silent Mathematician

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 [...]

Syndicated 2010-09-16 11:40:17 from Blue Danube

TeX4ht: Configure Part 2

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 [...]

Syndicated 2010-09-08 18:17:50 from Blue Danube

TeX4ht: Configure Part 1

The \Configure command is the most powerful user command in TeX4ht system. It helps to add various kinds of hooks to insert target markup code at the desired locations in and around various types of content. For instance, take the case of \section{...} in LaTeX. A typical example will be: \section{Introduction} \Configure for \section provides [...]

Syndicated 2010-09-06 11:24:52 from Blue Danube