[texhax] Using hevea

Gordon Haverland ghaverla at materialisations.com
Tue Sep 13 01:51:28 CEST 2011


On September 12, 2011, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> I am trying to learn how to blog, and most things I write about
> emacs in HTML mode is fine.  I can then cut and paste from
> emacs to the "editor" the blog has.
> 
> This last document started getting complex, and among other
> things I thought a Table of Contents would be useful. 
> Manually making the ToC and keeping it in sink with the
> evolving structure of the document got to be a pain.  Time to
> investigate LaTeX to HTML.
> 
> I started with tex4ht.  It seems to be too interested in
> presentation, and most of the structure seems to be in the
> attributes of tags.  And way too many <div> and <span> for me
> to work with.  I then tried hevea, and it seems workable.
> 
> Hevea doesn't seem to know anything about hyperref.

It seems I am talking to myself.  :-)

What seems to work a bit better in terms of tables, is to use 
tabular* instead of tabular, and when asked to specify columns 
widths (for paragraph mode colums), you specify the column width 
in terms of \textwidth.

Gord


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