harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo, Fac. of Soc.Sci, U of Helsinki) (07/31/90)
I am using LaTeX to write a textbook that I would like to give out to students also in hypertext-format on diskette. The book contains lot's of cross-references, glossaries, index-markings etc. Is there some neat way to convert those markings to hypertext-links for Guide, Hyper-Ties or some similar program? I'm mainly interested in a Dos-version, but portability to Mac and VMS would be a bonus.
muller@src.umd.edu (Christophe Muller) (08/01/90)
In article <2831.26b566ec@cc.helsinki.fi> harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo, Fac. of Soc.Sci, U of Helsinki) writes: > From: harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo, Fac. of Soc.Sci, U of Helsinki) > Newsgroups: comp.text.tex > I am using LaTeX to write a textbook that I would like to give out to students > also in hypertext-format on diskette. The book contains lot's of > cross-references, glossaries, index-markings etc. Is there some neat way to > convert those markings to hypertext-links for Guide, Hyper-Ties or some similar > program? I'm mainly interested in a Dos-version, but portability to Mac and VMS > would be a bonus. I don't know if there is a version of GNUemacs for DOS.. but if you can find that, then you could use LaTeXinfo, which is a LaTeX based version of emacs hypertext tool: Texinfo. (and there _is_ emacs on Vms) Here is an extract of the README: } This is version 1.2 of the LaTeXinfo documentation, and is for Version 18 } of GNU Emacs. } Documentation for GNU utilities and libraries is usually written in a } format called "TeXinfo". This document describes an enhancement } of this format which can be used with LaTeX instead of TeX. } Mike Clarkson (mike@ists.ists.ca) I don't know if there are any ftp-sites for that (it has been posted in comp.emacs), otherwise I can send you the shar files. This is a really neat tool, the only feature I'd like is a translation of LaTeX tables in the info (hypertext) file.. but I hope GNU will support this tool. Cheers, Christophe. -- = Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from ...to choose from =
dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) (08/04/90)
In article <2831.26b566ec@cc.helsinki.fi>, harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (Timo Harmo, Fac. of Soc.Sci, U of Helsinki) writes: > I am using LaTeX to write a textbook that I would like to give out to > students also in hypertext-format on diskette. The book contains lot's of > cross-references, glossaries, index-markings etc. Is there some neat way to > convert those markings to hypertext-links for Guide, Hyper-Ties or some > similar program? Digital's DOCUMENT software is a structural markup system that does this kind of thing. As well as the usual typeset output (currently via TeX) it can also produce hypertext for the DECwindows Bookreader application. I'm not familiar with Guide et al., but if they have a markup langauge for text input, than perhaps you could write your source document in this language, and LaTeX it with a style option that maps the hypertext commands onto LaTeX commands with appropriate use of \let, \def and \catcode. Conversely, you could map LaTeX command onto hypertext commands if the macroing was powerful enough. On a more general note, let me try to stir up some controversy: Would any WYSIWYG apologist like to argue against structural markup for this application? Surely "WYSIWYG" is meaningless when "What You Get" can be more than one thing.