Re: The Latest HTML to LaTeX Conversion Tool

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:04:42 -0000, vasan999@hotmail.com wrote:

>https://sourceforge.net/projects/html2latex/ <-------- perl
>
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/htmltolatex/ <---------- java
>
>> : The perl one does not run due to path problems.
>>
>> What did you try? Perl is soooo simple when it comes to path problems
>> that you should be able to fix it yourself.
>
>It is quite complicated and not clear to me how to do it.

The release date is September 24, 2000 - that is, not very recent.

I see that you're under Windows, and the program is probably better
targeted at starnices. However it comes with two *.win.txt docs that
give you instructions as to how to run under Windows. Basically the
program consists of a html2latex script and a HTML::Latex module,
which is pure Perl, thus without fiddling with *make you can simply
put HTML/Latex.pm in a directory which is @INC. You can list all such
directories for your system with

perl -le "print for @INC"

If your perl is AS's ActivePerl, then chances are that the output is

C:/Programmi/Perl/site/lib
C:/Programmi/Perl/lib
.

You can add more to the PERL5LIB env variable. If you -as is likely-
have the .pl extension associated to Perl, then you can rename
html2latex to html2latex.pl and put it anywhere in the PATH, then you
can run it just by typing its name. If you additionally add .pl to the
PATHEXT env variable then you can omit the extension. That is, you can
call the program like

html2latex [options]


HTH,
Michele
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