Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Another question

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 08/21/2006 04:43 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> Martin,
>
> On August 21, 2006 4:01 AM you wrote:
> > Bill Page writes:
> > > As you know, pamphlet files on MathAction are treated a 
> > > little differently with only a "thumbnail" displayed on
> > > the web page containing links to the pdf and dvi format
> > > generated by LaTeX.  Originally we had planned to use
> > > TeX4ht to produce a web page (or set of web pages) from
> > > the pamphlet source but there turned out to be some
> > > technical limitations. It is quite possible with some
> > > additional effort these problems could be solved. If 
> > > you are interested about this possibility, please ask.
> > Please note that Ralf's ALLPROSE does this already, also 
> > using tex4ht.
>
> I am sorry Martin, but I don't understand. ALLPROSE does what
> already? The problem referred to above is related to generating
> HTML from Axiom pamphlet source that can be used on the Axiom
> Wiki. Does Ralf have a version of ALLPROSE that can do that?
> If so, could you add some example pages to wiki?

Currently, I don't think that you need ALLPROSE to get the pamphlet 
files shown as html. Tex4ht should be quite enough.
The problem I see is that every pamphlet file is a separate thing. No 
links between different files. But let's not bother with that now. As I 
understood, someone wants an html button for the pamphlet files that 
triggers a routine to produce HTML from the .pamphlet.

First of all, we still haven't agreed on a general structure of pamphlet 
files. All I have seen is that most (if not all) contain the lines

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{axiom}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

If for the purpose of translating that file to html you provide an 
appropriate axiom.sty (and axiom.4ht) which can be different from the 
current existing axiom.sty, then I believe that should be doable.

Let's press the html button.

Then noweave is called to produce .tex.
Then htlatex is called to produce .html. (you might want to call 
makeindex/bibtex... in the middle)

I don't see the problem except that tex4ht sometimes needs a little help 
if strange commands appear in the LaTeX text.

Or maybe that is not the goal, then please clarify what should be 
achieve and what is the input.

Ralf