David Carlisle <david-news@d...> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>> Dear comp.text.xml,
>> Have you seen the web site called "Connexions" (http://cnx.org)? The
>> folks there have come up with a wonderful method using something
>> called PSGML of allowing authors to write one document such that this
>> document can be "rendered" to either HTML (for the web) or PDF (for
>> printing/more "nice" typesetting). The technique can also render math
>> equations using MathML.
>> I would like to base my web site design on something very similar,
>> but
>> I instead want the main source document to be a LaTeX document. I
>> know there are things like LaTeX2HTML out there, but it seems that
>> this "XML"-centric method of doing things gives better results (e.g.,
>> MathML output, and in general, true HTML without any "images" to
>> represent text). Therefore, does anyone know of a LaTeX->PSGML
>> converter, or of some
>> technique that could be used to do this type of thing, or something
>> similar? I also could use some pointers on how to render the PSGML
>> into PDF and
>> HTML.
>> Any ideas/comments/suggestions welcome.
>
> psgml isn't a language it's an emacs mode for editing sgml and xml
> files. 

Hi David,

Ahh, ok thanks for clearing that up. I also see now that connexions
uses cnxml - presumably their dialect of xml.

> So what you need is a latex to xml convertor: there are several
> of these, eg tex4ht. In practice how well a latex to xml convertor
> works (whichever system you use) depends greatly on how well
> structured the latex is.

Can you please provide the names of these latex->xml converters (other
than tex4ht)? I need mathml output, and I'm still not clear on whether
or not tex4ht can generate that.
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