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Joerg Wunsch 60b6bf6d2e html2latex, a simple converter to make HTML files printable.
(I've made sure and got an explicit permission from the author
for redistribution.)
1996-04-12 22:30:50 +00:00

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+.\" Manually converted from Nathan's html2latex.html file that
+.\" was accompanying the distribution.
+.\" "
+.Dd March 29, 1996
+.Dt HTML2LATEX 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm html2latex
+.Nd convert HTML markup to LaTeX markup
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm html2latex
+.Op opt
+.Op Ar file ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+For each file argument,
+.Nm html2latex
+converts the text as HTML markup to LaTeX markup. If no files are
+specified, a usage message is given. Input will be taken from
+standard input for files named
+.Fl .
+Output will to a similarly named file with a
+.Ql .tex
+extension (
+.Nm html2latex
+recognises
+.Ql .html
+extensions).
+.Pp
+Options modify the action of
+.Nm html2latex .
+.Pp
+The options are:
+.Bl -tag -offset indent -width "XXX"
+.It Fl n
+Number sections.
+.It Fl p
+Place page breaks after the title page (if present) and the
+table of contents (if present).
+.It Fl c
+Generate a table of contents.
+.It Fl s
+Create no files -- LaTeX is output to stdout.
+.It Fl t Ar Title
+Generate a title page, with the title
+.Ar Title.
+.It Fl a Ar Author
+Generate a title page, with the author
+.Ar Author .
+.It Fl h Ar Header
+Place the text
+.Ar Header
+after
+.Ql \ebegin{document} .
+.It Fl f Ar Footer
+Place the text
+.Ar Footer
+before
+.Ql \eend{document} .
+.It Fl o Ar Options
+Specify the options to
+.Ql \edocumentstyle .
+.El
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+An example of use is
+.Pp
+.Dl html2latex -n - < file.html | less
+.Pp
+This converts
+.Pa file.html
+to LaTeX and pages through the output. The sections (corresponding to
+heading tags in the HTML source) will be numbered.
+.Pp
+Another example is
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+html2latex -t 'Introduction to HTML' -a gnat \e
+-p -c -o '[bookman]{article}' html-intro
+.Ed
+.Pp
+This takes input from the file
+.Pa html-intro ,
+writing to
+.Pa html-intro.tex ,
+and adds a title page (with title
+.Em Introduction to HTML
+and author
+.Em gnat )
+and table of contents with page-breaks after both. The sections of
+the document are not numbered. The LaTeX source includes the line
+.Ql \edocumentstyle[bookman]{article} .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr latex 1 .
+.Sh BUGS
+Current the only HTML tags supported are:
+.Em TITLE, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5,
+.Em H6, UL, OL, DL, DT, DD, LI,
+.Em B, I, U, EM, STRONG, CODE, SAMP,
+.Em KBD, VAR, DFN, CITE, LISTING .
+The only recognised SGML escapes are
+.Ql &amp.amp ,
+.Ql &amp.lt ,
+.Ql &amp.gt .
+.Em ADDRESS
+tags are handled badly.
+.Pp
+The
+.Em COMPACT
+attribute to a
+.Em DL
+tag is not recognised.
+.Em MENU
+and
+.Em DIR
+styles are not handled well.
+.Em TITLE
+text are ignored.
+.Pp
+Currently
+.Em PRE
+tags are not handled at all.
+.Pp
+The entire file is read into memory. For long HTML documents on
+machines with little memory, this may cause problems.
+.Sh CREDITS
+Nathan Torkington adapted the HTML parser from NCSA's Xmosaic package
+(file://ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic) and wrote the conversion
+code. The HTML parser code is subject to the NCSA restrictions. The
+conversion code is subject to the VUW restrictions. Enquiries should
+be sent via e-mail to
+.Ql Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz .