TEX2PAGE(1) General Commands Manual TEX2PAGE(1)
NAME
tex2page - makes Web pages from LaTeX and plain-TeX documents
SYNOPSIS
tex2page --help
tex2page --version
tex2page <pathname>
DESCRIPTION
The command
tex2page <pathname>
converts the TeX source file <pathname> to the HTML file <jobname>.html, where <jobname> is the basename of <pathname>. Some auxiliary
HTML files and some image files may also be created.
The argument <pathname> can be a full or relative pathname. If the latter, it is reckoned relative to the current directory. The exten-
sion may be omitted if it is .tex.
In order to resolve cross-references, it may be necessary to invoke tex2page a couple of times. The log displayed on the console will
inform you if such is the case. This log is also saved in the file <jobname>.hlog.
If tex2page is called with the option `--help', it prints a help message and exits.
If tex2page is called with the option `--version', it prints version information and exits.
If tex2page is called without an argument, or if the argument is neither a valid option nor an existing file, then tex2page prints a brief
help message and exits. If you repeatedly (i.e., five or more times) call it faultily despite its helpful advice, tex2page will visibly
lose its patience.
The complete documentation for tex2page is included in the tex2page distribution, and may also be viewed on the Web at
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html
SEARCH PATH FOR TeX FILES
tex2page uses the same search path as TeX to search for input and openin files. The default search path is implementation-dependent but
can be changed by setting the environment variable TEXINPUTS to a list of colon-separated directories. (If you wish to merely prepend your
list to the default list, end your list with a colon.)
Add two trailing forward slashes to any directory in TEXINPUTS that you want to recursively search all subdirectories of.
If the environment variable TIIPINPUTS is set, tex2page will use the TIIPINPUTS value as its search path instead of TEXINPUTS. TIIPINPUTS
does not support the double-slash mechanism of TEXINPUTS.
EDITING ON ERROR
If tex2page encounters a fatal error in the document, it displays the prompt
Type e to edit file at point of error; x to quit
?
If you type x, tex2page immediately exits.
If however you type e, a text editor is fired up, showing the offending file -- which may or may not be the main input file -- at the line
containing the error. The particular editor chosen and the arguments with which it is called depends on the environment variables TEXEDIT
or EDITOR.
If the environment variable TEXEDIT is set, tex2page uses its string value as the editor call to use. A possible value for TEXEDIT is "vim
+%d %s". This calls the editor vim with %s replaced by the offending file's name, and %d replaced by the number of the offending line.
If TEXEDIT is not set, the value of the environment variable EDITOR is chosen as the editor. Unlike TEXEDIT which contains the editor call
as a template, EDITOR contains simply the editor's name. If EDITOR is also not set, vi is chosen as the editor.
The editor specified in EDITOR is called with the arguments " +<n> <f>", where <f> is the offending file's name and <n> is the offending
line number. It is not possible to alter the way the file and line arguments are supplied, but fortunately this style is accepted by vi,
emacs, and all their clones. If you use an editor that requires a different argument style, use TEXEDIT.
DIRECTORY FOR HTML PAGES
By default, tex2page generates its output HTML files in the current directory. You can specify a different directory by naming it in one
of the following files:
<jobname>.hdir in the current directory, or
.tex2page.hdir in the current directory, or
.tex2page.hdir in your home directory;
where <jobname> is the basename of the input document. The first of these three files that exists overrides the rest.
The name in the .hdir file can be, or contain, the TeX control-sequence jobname, which expands to <jobname>, the basename of the input
document.
DOCUMENT-SPECIFIC MACROS
Before processing a TeX source file whose basename is <jobname>, tex2page will automatically load the file <jobname>.t2p, if it exists.
<jobname>.t2p is a good place to put macros that are specific to the HTML version of the document.
GENERAL MACROS
tex2page recognizes some commands that are not supplied in the LaTeX or plain-TeX formats -- typically these are commands that add value to
the HTML output. In order to keep an input document that uses these extra commands processable by TeX, working TeX definitions are pro-
vided in the TeX macro file tex2page.tex and the LaTeX macro package file tex2page.sty. Copy these macro files from the tex2page distribu-
tion to a directory in your TEXINPUTS.
Plain-TeX documents can use
input tex2page
while LaTeX documents can use
usepackage{tex2page}
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
tex2page runs on Scheme or Common Lisp. It may also make use of the following programs: BibTeX, MakeIndex, Ghostscript, Dvips, MetaPost,
and the NetPBM library.
Out of the box, tex2page runs in Racket, but the distribution includes configuration information to allow tex2page to run on a variety of
Scheme and Common Lisp implementations. See file INSTALL.
BUGS
Email to dorai @ ccs.neu.edu.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), latex(1), mzscheme(1), bibtex(1), makeindex(1L), mpost(1).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1997-2012 by Dorai Sitaram.
Permission to distribute and use this work for any purpose is hereby granted provided this copyright notice is included in the copy. This
work is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind.
2007-02-21 TEX2PAGE(1)