[texhax] convert beamer's PDF to HTML thumbnails

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>> Converting pdf files to html is not task of TeX.
>> What can be done? Use htlatex to generate html rather than pdf
>> However beamer is not supported, rewrite as powerdot (which is rather
>> easy).
>> Adding Slidy http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1) allows
>> presentation like this
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>> http://weyl.math.toronto.edu/Experimental/Talk_5A.html
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>> (made ONLY to check how it works)
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> Hmmm : 1 \over \root {g} comes out very poorly at
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>        http://weyl.math.toronto.edu/Experimental/Talk_5A.html#(9)
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> the "\over" is almost impossible to see, and
> until I did a "view image" on the "\root {g}",
> I thought it was a part of the root sign ...
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> ** Phil.
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I agree tex4ht is not perfect; more precisely, html has a lot of
shortcomings for math. There are different variants (using jsMath or
Mathml) but I misplaced these experiments. The only thing I did was to
follow advices of Eitan and add Slidy from w3


Victor


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