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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• latex2html
• pstoimg
• texexpand

Projektgeschichte

The project originated with Nikos Drakos at the Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds; the README names Drakos as the original author, and historical generated pages carry 1993 copyright notices. Ross Moore at Macquarie University later became a principal author listed in the README, with Marek Rouchal and Jens Lippmann listed as former authors.

LaTeX2HTML grew alongside the early web as an answer to a concrete publishing problem: authors already had structured LaTeX documents, while the web needed navigable HTML. Its feature set reflects that era, including generated navigation panels, hypertext cross-references, image conversion for equations, and support for raw HTML embedded in LaTeX.

The GitHub repository was created on 2016-06-27, providing a modern source-control home for a tool whose change log still records annual maintenance releases through the 2020s.

Adoptionsgeschichte

LaTeX2HTML became a recognizable part of TeX and Unix publishing culture because many academic and technical sites used it to publish manuals, course notes, standards drafts, and software documentation as static HTML. The official site documents availability through Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, and MacPorts.

Its adoption declined as PDF-first publishing, MathJax, Sphinx, Pandoc, and static-site generators became common, but it remains packaged because old document trees and automated build systems still depend on its particular HTML output model.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `latex2html` on a LaTeX source file to generate a directory of linked HTML pages. Companion tools such as `pstoimg` and `texexpand` support image generation and source expansion, and the README points to `perldoc latex2html`, `latex2html -help`, and the docs directory for detailed usage.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

LaTeX2HTML is package-nerd significant because it captures the first wave of TeX-to-web conversion in a still-packaged command-line tool. It is also a dependency fossil: even if a new project would choose a newer converter, old documentation builds may require LaTeX2HTML's exact behavior.

For package maintainers, it is the kind of utility that forces careful dependency handling around Perl, TeX, Ghostscript, Netpbm, Poppler, dvips, and dvipng.

Zeitleiste

• 1993: Historical copyright notices identify Nikos Drakos as author of early LaTeX2HTML releases.
• 1997-1999: Ross Moore copyright notices appear in generated LaTeX2HTML pages and the README lists him as a later principal author.
• 1999: The README records a TeX User Group mailing-list archive beginning in 1999.
• 2016-06-27: GitHub repository created.
• 2024-2026: Change log records maintenance releases for modern TeX and conversion issues.

Related projects

• Related projects and tools include TeX Live, Ghostscript, Netpbm, Poppler, dvips, dvipng, Pandoc, HeVeA, TtH, Sphinx, and MathJax-era HTML math publishing.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/latex2html/latex2html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex2html/latex2html/master/Changes
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex2html/latex2html/master/README.md
• https://www.latex2html.org/