使用 Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, zypper 安装 latexml

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• latexml
• latexmlc
• latexmlfind
• latexmlmath
• latexmlpost

项目历史

Bruce R. Miller developed LaTeXML at NIST for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, where a large body of LaTeX-authored mathematical content needed a web-oriented representation. The project later moved into a public GitHub workflow under the brucemiller/LaTeXML repository, with Deyan Ginev also listed as an author in the repository metadata.

The 2014 paper 'LaTeXML 2012 - A Year of LaTeXML' described the project as already established in mathematical-knowledge-management work, originally created for NIST DLMF and then used in publishing frameworks, authoring suites, and large TeX corpora. GitHub release tags show the 0.8 line continuing from at least 2015's v0.8.1 through the v0.8.8 release work dated 2024-02-26.

采用历史

LaTeXML found adoption where TeX is the authoring language but HTML, XML, accessibility, or machine-readable math is the delivery target. The project's own history emphasizes DLMF, mathematical publishing, authoring tools, and corpus conversion rather than a generic LaTeX-to-PDF workflow.

Package-manager adoption reflects that niche but durable role: Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, MacPorts, and openSUSE package it as a command-line conversion suite, exposing tools such as latexml, latexmlpost, latexmlmath, and latexmlc.

使用方式

Typical use is a pipeline: convert TeX-like input to LaTeXML's XML model, then postprocess it into web or interchange formats. The command family supports full-document conversion, daemon-style conversion, math fragments, postprocessing, and helper discovery.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

LaTeXML matters to package nerds because it sits at the intersection of TeX packaging, Perl dependencies, XML vocabularies, MathML, and reproducible document conversion. It is the sort of formula that reveals whether a package manager can handle a research-software stack with long-lived academic infrastructure and many format edges.

时间线

• 2004: Public release date recorded for LaTeXML in secondary software metadata.
• 2012: The project was described as used beyond DLMF in publishing frameworks, authoring suites, and large-scale TeX corpora.
• 2015: v0.8.1 release commit dated 2015-02-17.
• 2022: v0.8.7 release notes dated 2022-12-16 described broad usability, fidelity, robustness, portability, and output-quality work.
• 2024: v0.8.8 release work dated 2024-02-26 updated the manual and release notes.

Related projects

• Related systems and standards include TeX, LaTeX, XML, HTML5, EPUB, JATS, TEI, MathML, the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, and arXiv-scale TeX corpus conversion efforts.

来源

• https://arxiv.org/html/1404.6549v1
• https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML
• https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/manual.pdf
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/latexml
• https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML
• https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML/releases