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From: [email protected] (N F Drakos)
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: LaTeX2HTML v0.3.1 available
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A new release of the LaTeX2HTML translator (v0.3.1) is now available.

Summary of the most important changes since v0.2
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o Image Recycling
  Images for equations, tables, figures, special characters etc.,
  generated by the translator are reused during subsequent runs.
  This offers tremendous improvements in speed after an initial
  successful translation.

o Cross-References Between (Local or Remote) Documents
  Cross-references between documents (possibly on
  remote locations) can be established via symbolic labels which are
  independent of the physical filenames.
  Such cross-references will be maintained with a
  re-translation even after one or more of the documents have been
  broken into different physical parts or moved.

o New Options
  -external_images
     Images are accessed via hypertext links instead of being "inlined".
  -ascii_mode
     The navigation icons switch to ascii equivalents and images
     are not "inlined". This option makes documents more portable.

o New Texexpand (contributed by Robert S. Thau <[email protected]>)

Online information via the World Wide Web
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For more information on how to retrieve, install and use the translator see:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html

An *ascii version* of the same documentation is at:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html.ascii/latex2html.ascii.html

A postscript version of the above is available at:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html.ps

The full list of changes from v0.2 is at:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/subsection3.8.2.html
and the changes from v0.3 at:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/subsection3.8.1.html

For the brave ones who got v0.3 last week there is a patch to
take you to v0.3.1 in:
http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/previous-versions/patch0.3-to-0.3.1

The new release should become available via anonymous ftp from
ftp.tex.ac.uk in pub/archive/support/latex2html ***soon***.

Overview
********

The translator:

o breaks up a document into one or more components as specified by
  the user,
o provides an optional next, previous, and up navigation panel on every
  page,
o handles equations, tables, figures, and any arbitrary environment.
  These are passed to
  [LaTeX] and then converted to images which are either included in
  the document or are made available through hypertext links,
o can produce output suitable for browsers that support inlined images
  or character based browsers (as specified by the user),
o handles definitions of new commands, environments, and theorems
  even when these are defined in external style files,
o handles footnotes, tables of contents, lists of figures and tables,
  bibliographies, and can generate an  index,
o translates cross-references into hyperlinks,
o extends the [LaTeX] cross-referencing mechanism to work not just
  within a document but between documents which may reside in
  remote locations,
o recognizes hypertext links (to sound/video/ftp/http/news etc.
  addresses) expressed as LaTeX commands,
o can deal sensibly at least with the Common [LaTeX] commands
  summarized at the back of the [LaTeX] blue book [1],
o will try and translate any document with embedded [LaTeX]
  commands irrespective of whether it is complete or syntactically
  legal.

Requirements
************

The translator makes use of the following public domain programs and
libraries:

o [LaTeX], dvips (version 5.512 or later).  These are part of the same
  distribution.
o Perl (version 4.0 - RCSfile: perl.c,v - Revision: 4.0.1.8 - Date:
  1993/02/05 19:39:30 - Patch level: 36)
o gs (Ghostscript version 2.6.1).  This is necessary for the conversion of
  postscript files to the XBM and GIF formats.
o The pbmplus library (distribution of 22nov89 or later).  From this, the
  utilities pnmcrop and ppmtoxbm are used during the postscript to
  XBM conversion.

If ghostscipt or the pbmplus library are not available it is still possible
to get acceptable output but without equations,
figures, tables, special symbols and arbitrary environments.

[1] Leslie Lamport.  LATEX User's Guide & Reference Manual.
   Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1986.

Nikos Drakos <[email protected]>
Computer Based Learning Unit
University of Leeds.

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