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Requirements


The translator makes use of several utilities all of which are freely available on most platforms. You may use Archie, or other Web-searching tools such as FTP search, to find the source code of any utilities you might need.


For the best use of LATEX2HTML you want to get the latest versions of all the utilities that it uses. (It will still work with earlier versions, but some special effects may not be possible. The specific requirements are discussed below.)
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More specific requirements for using LATEX2HTML depend on the kind of translation you would like to perform, as follows:

  1. LATEX commands but without equations, figures, tables, etc.

  2. LATEX commands with equations, figures, tables, etc.
    As above plus ...

  3. Segmentation of large documents
    If you wish to use this feature, you will have to upgrade your LATEX to LATEX2e. Some other hyperlinking features also require LATEX2e.

  4. Transparent inlined images
    If you dislike the white background color of the generated inlined images then you should get either the netpbm library (instead of the older pbmplus) or install the giftrans filter by Andreas Ley <ley@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>. LATEX2HTML now supports the shareware program giftool (by Home Pages, Inc., version 1.0), too. It can also create interlaced GIFs.

If Ghostscript or the netpbm library are not available, it is still possible to use the translator with the -no_images option.


If you intend to use any of the special features of the translator then you have to include the html.sty file in any LATEX documents that use them.


Since by default the translator makes use of inlined images in the final HTML output, it would be better to have a viewer which supports the <IMG> tag, such as NCSA Mosaic or Netscape Navigator.
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Any browser which claims to be compatible with HTML 3.2 should meet this requirement.
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If only a character-based browser, such as lynx, is available, or if you want the generated documents to be more portable, then the translator can be used with the -ascii_mode option.


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Rob MacLeod 2004-10-10