5 Short version of the recipe

In this section we present a condensed version of the previous recipe, without all the gory details. Assuming that LATEX, TEX4ht, ImageMagick and GhostScript are installed, you may download a file package from [6] containing the other essentials. These include:

• A precompiled binary for dvi2bitmap.
• The cscript.sh script.
• A version of tex4ht.env adapted to use cscript.sh.
• The customlinks.tex macros for customized HTML links.

If you have skipped directly to this section without reading about the background for these components, you will not necessarily understand what they do or what they are needed for. Consult the other sections if you are bewildered.

Now for the recipe for converting your LATEX document into HTML:

1. Download the file package tex4ht-files.tar.gz and decompress it into your working directory. (That is, the directory from where you run the latex-commands.)
2. Modify your source code:
   • Add \usepackage[html,png]{tex4ht} to your preamble, that is before the \begin{document} command.
   • Move all macro definitions (for example \newcommand and \newenvironment definitions) to after the \begin{document} command.
3. Compile your document:
   • You may run ht latex document , where document is the file name of your LATEX document without extension.
   • You may also run your own set of commands if the above does not seem to cope with all your tables or similar:

     latex document   latex document   latex document   tex4ht document   t4ht document

     This is the sequence actually run with ht latex document. Run additional latex commands, bibtex commands or whatever before the tex4ht and t4ht commands.
4. If compilation succeeded, your HTML version is stored in document*.html and the graphic content is stored in document*.png. Additional cascading style sheet-specifications recides in document*.css. All these files must be published in the same directory on the web for the document to be displayed correctly.