What is the best html to latex program on the market or the internet ?

[vasan999]

Basically, it should do all that any of the tools below and in
addition,

1/
human readable output that maintains the text lines of the source, ie
does not scramble the text lines or insert newlines unnecessarily or
removes them. inserts minimal latex elements.

2/
maintains cross-links, ie convert <href to \ref and <name= to \label

but if the set of htmls is incomplete proceed with the assumption that
the reference is there, ie dont delete the links or try to modify them
or their addresses. One of the tool I tested is too smart in this
respect and actually ruins the result.

3/
proper conversion of images, tables, etc. No math mode involved in
html.
4/
Even an emacs lisp function could be written by a guru that can do the
job.

5/
Is there any commercial wysiwig tool ?
LaTeX etc

* html2latex is a program based on the NCSA html parser. Contact:
Na***************@vuw.ac.nz.
* Another html2latex can combine several HTML files into a single
LaTeX file, converting links between the files to references. External
URL's can be converted into footnotes or into a bibliography sorted on
URL. Contact: F.*******@cs.utwente.nl (Frans J. Faase)
* Another html2latex implemented on Linux by yacc+lex+C. Also
available from the TSX-11 Linux FTP site as nc-html2latex-0.97.tar.gz.
Contact: na*****@naochan.com (Naoya Tozuka)
* htmlatex.pl is a perl script to do the conversion (may be moving
soon). Contact: n9******@cc.wwu.edu (Jake Kesinger)
* There is also a sed script to convert HTML into LaTeX.

[metaperl.com]

I like PlasTeX.SF.Net

Basically, it should do all that any of the tools below and in
addition,

[Peter Flynn]

va******@hotmail.com wrote:

Basically, it should do all that any of the tools below and in
addition,

You've already asked this, and been given the answer, but in case you
didn't see it...

XSLT.

Run your HTML through Tidy to produce XHTML.
Then write an XSLT script to transform it to LaTeX.
This gives you 100% control and ensures robustness.

However, handling all the stupid things HTML authors do may make it
long-winded if you want to cope with them all. On the other hand, if
you are dealing with a reasonably consistent subset, it's probably the
most reliable method.

///Peter

[gnuist006]

On Oct 23, 3:27 pm, Peter Flynn <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

Basically, it should do all that any of the tools below and in
addition,

You've already asked this, and been given the answer, but in case you
didn't see it...

XSLT.

Run your HTML through Tidy to produce XHTML.
Then write an XSLT script to transform it to LaTeX.
This gives you 100% control and ensures robustness.

However, handling all the stupid things HTML authors do may make it
long-winded if you want to cope with them all. On the other hand, if
you are dealing with a reasonably consistent subset, it's probably the
most reliable method.

///Peter

forgot to cc to myself.
Janusz

[tsy]

On Oct 24, 5:27 am, Peter Flynn <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:
Run your HTML through Tidy to produce XHTML.
Then write an XSLT script to transform it to LaTeX.
This gives you 100% control and ensures robustness.

Is XSLT way easier than using a decent scripting language with a SAX
library?

[Peter Flynn]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:21:29 -0700, tsy wrote:

On Oct 24, 5:27 am, Peter Flynn <[e-mail]:

>[e-mail] wrote:
Run your HTML through Tidy to produce XHTML. Then write an XSLT script
to transform it to LaTeX. This gives you 100% control and ensures
robustness.

Is XSLT way easier than using a decent scripting language with a SAX
library?

Yes. XSLT *is* a decent scripting (well, transformation-to-other-formats)
language.

///Peter