List of Features

Following is a listing of the main features of the translator; more specific details on these is given elsewhere in this manual.

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• breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by the user⁷;

    

• provides optional, customisable iconic navigation panels on every page which contain links to other parts of the document, or other documents;

         

• handles inlined equations ( $\sum_{i=1}^{n}$x_i = $\int_{0}^{1}$f), handles equation alignment ( A_{BC + D}), right-justified numbered equations (see example), tables (see example), figures (see example), and any arbitrary environment.
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  Either the complete environment or subparts thereof...
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  are passed to L^ATEX for conversion to images, which are then either included in the document or are made available through hypertext links.

           
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• figures or tables can be arbitrarily scaled and oriented, and shown either as inlined images or ``thumbnail'' sketches...
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  or their contents displayed within a table constructed using the <TABLE> tags of HTML 3.2.
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• theorem-like environments are supported, along with automatic numbering and counter dependencies.
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• can produce output suitable for browsers that support inlined images or character-based browsers (as specified by the user).
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  In particular the TEX or L^ATEX code for mathematical expressions and formulas will be displayed in character-based browsers, such as lynx.
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• coloured text and/or background is fully supported, as is the ability to use an image to create a tiled backdrop.
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• handles definitions of new commands, environments and counters even when these are defined in external files for input⁸;

         

• handles footnotes⁹, tables of contents, lists of figures and tables, bibliographies and can generate an index.
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  By including hyperlinks between index entries, simple navigation aids can be built into the index, for easy browsing.
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• automatically translates cross-references and citations into hyper-links, and extends the L^ATEX cross-referencing mechanism to work not just within a document but between documents which may reside in remote locations;

           

• translates L^ATEX accent and special character commands (e.g. A Øö £©¶) to the equivalent ISO-Latin-1 or Unicode character set, where possible;

        

• recognises hypertext links (to multi-media resources or arbitrary Internet services such as sound, video, ftp, http, news) and links which invoke arbitrary program scripts--all expressed as L^ATEX commands;

   

• recognises conditional text which is intended only for the hypertext version, or only for the paper (.dvi) version;

     

• can include raw HTML in a L^ATEX document (e.g. in order to specify interactive forms);

       

• can deal sensibly with at least the Common L^ATEX Commands summarised at the back of
  
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  virtually all of the concepts and commands described in the L^ATEX blue book, where there is a meaningful interpretation appropriate to an HTML document,
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  as well as many other L^ATEX constructions, such as are described in the L^ATEX Companion and L^ATEX Graphics Companion (e.g. X_Y-pic);

              
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• can be configured to translate equations either as GIF images or as HTML 3.0 mark-up (as browsers become available which are suitable for the task),
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  or by making images of subparts of equations, as required.
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• links symbolic references across document segments which have been independently processed;
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• will try to translate any document with embedded L^ATEX commands, irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically legal.

Footnotes

... user⁷

The user can specify the depth at which the document should not be broken up any further.

... input⁸

This allows the definition of HTML macros in L^ATEX !

... footnotes⁹

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