Re: REQ: LaTex importer


Subject: Re: REQ: LaTex importer
From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 11:42:09 CST


On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Johan Stenfors wrote:

> The possibility to import LaTex documents would be useful.
>
> There is a perl script called LaTex2HTML which should be a good source
> of information on how to make such filter.

It would be pretty difficult to make a filter which reads arbitrary LaTeX,
because LaTeX allows you to write TeX, which is a Turing-complete
programming language. Perhaps a more useful starting point would be LyX's
LaTeX input.

LaTeX2HTML uses LaTeX for anything tricky, like formulas.

pat



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