- Accents and Special Characters
-
LaTeX accent commands, special characters and accent commands defined
in german.sty are translated to equivalent ISO-LATIN-1
characters when that is possible (partly thanks to code supplied
by Franz Vojik <vojik@de.tu-muenchen.informatik>).
- Auto-loading of Style-Specific Code
-
The translator now supports a
mechanism for including Perl code extensions
which are specific to particular style files.
This mechanism will help to keep the core script smaller as well as make
it easier for others to contribute and share solutions on
how to translate specific style files. The current distribution includes the files
german.perl, french.perl, html.perl and makeidx.perl.
- Installation and Testing
-
To make it easier to install the translator for more than one user
there is now a configuration file (
LATEX2HTMLDIR/latex2html.config) which contains installation specific
information and default values for the various options.
This makes it unnecessary to have a HOME/.latex2html-init for
each user.
If a user does have a HOME/.latex2html-init then this will be
loaded after
LATEX2HTMLDIR/latex2html.config.
A new Perl script ( install-test) is now available with the distribution
which will install the translator, and then perform some tests on the
availability
of some external
programs giving, appropriate warnings.
- Navigation Panel Extensions
-
The following new links have been added to the navigation panel which
appears in each page
(where this is appropriate):
- a link to the next ``logical'' page (this allows reading each
page in the same order as with a paper-based version - as opposed to
structure navigation)
- a link to the previous ``logical'' page
- a link to the table of contents
- a link to the index
- HTML Style File Extensions
-
The HTML style file html.sty now includes definitions of new
environments for:
- Inclusion of Raw HTML
-
A new LaTeX environment rawhtml allows
arbitrary
HTML tags to be included in a LaTeX document. This is useful for
taking
advantage of HTML+ features as they become available (e.g. interactive
forms).
The HTML commands are ignored when producing the DVI version of the
document.
- Conditional Text
-
The new environments latexonly and htmlonly allow their
contents to appear only in final DVI or in the HTML version of a
document respectively.
A new command hyperref can be used to specify the way in
which cross-references should be shown in the DVI version and the
HTML version of the document.
- Right Justification of Equations
-
The translator
adds enough whitespace at the beginning of each equation bitmap
to push it to the right-hand margin. The width of each line can be
set in the configuration file using the variable LINE_WIDTH.
- Inlined Images
-
All inlined images are now generated by calling latex and
dvips only once
at the end of the conversion process (but each generated image still
has to be filtered individually). Also, a warning is given if an
image cannot be converted.
- Numeric Labels
-
The original (LaTeX generated) numeric labels are used instead of
the arrow navigation icon for cross-references where possible.
To do this the translator uses the information in the
aux file which is generated by LaTeX. If the aux file
is out of date a warning is given.
- New Options
-
- -auto_navigation
-
This puts a navigation panel
at the top of each page as usual. But if the page exceeds a
user-settable
number of words (the default is 450 words)
then a navigation panel is also placed at the end of
the page. This option is active by default.
- -index_in_navigation
-
Adds a link to the index in the navigation panel.
- -contents_in_navigation
-
Adds a link to the table of contents in the navigation panel.
- -next_page_in_navigation
-
Adds a link to the next ``logical'' page in the navigation panel.
- -previous_page_in_navigation
-
Adds a link to the previous ``logical'' page in the navigation panel.
- -bottom_navigation
-
This puts a navigation panel at the bottom of each page.
- -top_navigation
-
This puts a navigation panel at the top of each page (the default).
- -show_section_numbers
-
This allows each section (page) title to be numbered in the same
way that it would be numbered by LaTeX. This requires
an up to date aux file (generated by running LaTeX) and that
each title is unique. If the aux file is not up to date then a
warning is given.
Unfortunately if
the title contains inlined images the numbering for that title will
be lost.
- -reuse
-
This allows images generated during previous invocations of
the translator to be ``reused'' without going through the initial
interactive session. The same behavior is obtained by setting
the variable REUSE to 1 (the default) in the configuration file.
Note that images which may depend on contextual information (e.g. numerical
labels) cannot be reused and are always re-generated.
- Bug Fixes and Minor Changes
-
- The links from the table of contents in single page documents (created using
the option -split 0) is now working as expected.
- Newlines are translated to the <BR> tag.
- Fixed some problems in dealing with new command macros.
- texexpand now respects commented input and
include commands. Also (thanks to Franz Vojik
<vojik@de.tu-muenchen.informatik>), it
now looks in subdirectories when expanding
files.
- The ALIGN attribute of inlined images is now BOTTOM instead of
TOP.
- Fixed problem with the environment variable TEXINPUTS.
- Added some support for optional user-defined labels (bullets) in
list environments.
