TeX4ht: Overview of the Process
TeX4ht system has the ability to translate any TeX or LaTeX document into other markup formats such as SGML, HTML, XML, MathML, OpenOffice format, Braille, etc. The system has an extensive load of TeX packages, hypertext fonts, a post-processor for dvi and another post-processor to generate CSS and image files of math formulae and equations. [...]
MathML 3 and TeX4ht
MathML 3 is about to be formalized and going to be released as the new standard for encoding mathematics in web. It differs from the previous standard 2. The main changes that have a bearing on the functionality of TeX4ht are discussed here. Linking MathML 1 and 2 didn’t have any built in provisions to [...]
Pdfpagediff
We often encounter nightmarish scenario while generating final versions of a long document when one or more of the following happens: New revised versions of packages used. Smaller changes to a fewer number of pages of a long document. No change in the document, but recompiled with revised page numbers as it happens during compilation [...]
The World of Don Knuth
I was often astounded by the tastes, particularly the choice of literary works and movies of Don Knuth who is a mathematician and computer scientist by training and profession. Most of the computer scientists I know are wary of reading anything outside their realm of knowledge. If you tell them anything about existentialism or postmodern [...]
Write registers in TeX
Prolog The io registers in TeX are often a matter of severe limitation. When we try to typeset a document that loads a lot of packages, it becomes a non-trivial task to satisfy register requirements of various packages that compete each other. It is further complicated, if refining the typeset copy involves usage of more [...]
Plain TeX and TeX4ht
If you try to generate html version of your plain TeX document using a combination of pdfTeX and TeX4ht, you will find terrible mismatches and html version will not be generated. The reason for the problem is TeX4ht needs a dvi output from which it extracts the html while pdfTeX generates a pdf by default. [...]
My Dreams
I have two dreams — one is the sustainable community and the other is an autobiographical manual of TeX programming. Ever since I got a job in the federal shipping ministry at Delhi in 1973, I have been aggressively campaigning for the formation of a commune (similar to a Kibbutz in Israel) among my friends, [...]
Ten Years in River Valley
On July 17, 2010, we had a small function in the afternoon to honour twenty six of our staff members who have put in more than ten years of service in this company. They were presented with mementos, granted extra increments to their salaries and several staff members felicitated them. The occasion was graced by [...]
Plans for a Sustainable Community
The core objective The most important aim of our sustainable community is to recreate the human support network, the great advantage of our old joint family system which faded away with the advent of nuclear family. We want to bring it back to suit modern day living where freedom and execution of one’s freewill assume [...]
How to fill the rest of the page with horizontal rules?
This was a posting in the texhax mailing list of TeX Users Group. Among all, Phil Taylor s solution seemed to be the best. I have extended to fill arbitrary vertical remaining space in a page in the following manner: \newdimen\spaceleft \def\pagespace{% \ifdim\pagetotal=0pt \spaceleft=\vsize \else \spaceleft=\pagegoal \advance\spaceleft by-\pagetotal \fi} \def\fillWithLines{\null{}\pagespace\vbox to \spaceleft {\xleaders \vbox to [...]
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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