[texhax] Using hevea

[Gordon Haverland]

I am trying to learn how to blog, and most things I write about 
emacs in HTML mode is fine.  I can then cut and paste from emacs 
to the "editor" the blog has.

This last document started getting complex, and among other things 
I thought a Table of Contents would be useful.  Manually making 
the ToC and keeping it in sink with the evolving structure of the 
document got to be a pain.  Time to investigate LaTeX to HTML.

I started with tex4ht.  It seems to be too interested in 
presentation, and most of the structure seems to be in the 
attributes of tags.  And way too many <div> and <span> for me to 
work with.  I then tried hevea, and it seems workable.

Hevea doesn't seem to know anything about hyperref.  So, I am 
getting warnings about underscores and improper anchors, but that 
is editable.  The biggest annoyance seems to be tables.  While you 
can define a table in HTML that only has a body, the HTML 
definition allows for HEAD, BODY and FOOTER.  And in LaTeX, a 
table only has content.  So, every table will need polishing.  
Which is fine, I might even be able to figure out how to get perl 
to rewrite the HTML to do this.

This note is not a complaint.  It is an observation.  Hopefully it 
helps others.  It may be that I haven't found the best solution 
yet.  And advice along that line is also welcome.

Gord