html2latex - user manual

Running html2latex

Program accepts following command line arguments:

-input <fileName> input HTML file
-output <fileName> output LaTeX file
-css <fileName> file with CSS (optional)
-config <file> file with configuration (optional - implicitly takes config.xml)

Configuration

All of the configuration options are stored in a XML file (config.xml). The format of the configuration is described at the beginning of this file. It's necessary for the file to be well-formed and to match its XML Schema (config.xsd).

Features

CSS supported (but only properties defining formatting)
only basic style names supported (ie. .class, p.class, #id, p#id), multiple style names supported (ie. h1, h2, { ... }), entries like ul li li, p>span not supported
mappings between HTML tags and LaTeX commands can be defined
mappings between HTML entities (both named and numerical) and LaTeX commands can be defined
mappings between CSS properties and LaTeX commands can be defined
hyperlinks can be converted to footnotes, bibliography items, links using hyperref package or ignored
HTML comments are converted to LaTeX comments
HTML comments starting with "LaTex:" (case is ignored) are put in the output file like non-comments (so it's possible to include LaTeX commands in HTML file)
program tries to recognize badly formed HTML documents, still it's strongly recommended to convert valid (or at least completely well-formed) documents, ie. foo will be converted as foo


    title and cite attributes are 
converted to footnotes



Conversion
Tables
Special table tag attribute latexcols is recognized. Its content
is put just after the \begin{tabular} command.

Example:
<table latexcols='|l|p{5cm}|r|' border='1'>