TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX2html and emacs
1) there is a program called
latex2html recently upgraded by ITC which
works quite well (better than
it used to). It is one way in which
you can display equations on
the web.
You use it to convert a tex file
to an html file by the command
/contrib/bin/latex2html <texfile.tex>
To see what the output looks
use you browser to look at
http://www.math.Virginia.EDU/~db5d/M521/solutions_chapterI/
latex2html creates a directory
<texfile>
Run the command
chmod -R go+xr <texfile>
in order to give read and execute
rights, put it in
your public_html directory and
then anyone can see it in their
browsers.
2) auctex users: I have just
upgraded auctex on weyl: it will look a
little different from the old
one in the menus but should work
better. Let me know of problems.
You can still get the old
version by changing, in your
.emacs file, the line
(setq load-path (cons "/auc/Auctex-9.81" load-path))
to
(setq load-path (cons "/auc/Auctex-9.0" load-path))
3) Emacs users: There are two
very nice programs for running TeX and
LaTeX available within emacs,
which improve on the standard emacs
tex mode. They are called auctex
and ultratex respectively. These
programs make it possible to
run all the standard commands such as
latex
view
print
create postscript file
ghostview the postscript file
bibtex
latex2html
inside emacs. There are commands
to find errors, insert
standard latex constructions,
comment out regions, ....
auctex is menu driven which
makes it initially easier to use but
ultratex is the better program
because it gives colors and it is so
smart that it completes latex
constructions as soon as it
recognizes them from a typed
fragment.