About

This repository contains the customizations and scripts I use to convert latex to html via plastex. The main pieces of code are

• A plastex renderer in CustomRenderer/. This is based on the HTML5 renderer.
• Custom package implementations in overrides/.
• A plastex patch in overrides/plastex_patch.py.

See here for an example output.

To turn a tex file into html, run

 $ ./tex2html.py [source.tex] [target directory]

If source.pdf is present, it will be copied to the target directory as well. Note that the command removes everything in the target directory.

The script ./compile_srcf.py is the script I use on my webserver to compile multiple tex files with some extra configuration.

Custom Renderer

The main output differences from the HTML5 renderer are

• This uses KaTeX to render the math, and rendering is performed server side. As a consequence, the resulting HTML file does not use any javascript.

  A vendered copy of KaTeX is found at CustomRenderer/katex.min.js. The current version is 0.11.1. The latest version can be found at https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX

• Styling differences:

  • A custom css stylesheet is used
  • The page template is completely different and is found at CustomRenderer/layout.jinja2.
  • Some macros have different templates. They can be found at CustomRenderer/Templates/. The unspecified macros use the HTML5 templates.

To do

• Support multiple authors
• Booktabs
• Proper \fakeqed/\qedhere when ending a proof with an equation
• KaTeX tag leaves page
• Table of contents number alignment
• cite brackets - use nbsp
• Style bibliography properly

Dependencies

On top of the plastex dependencies (see plastex/requirements.txt), this requires pyduktape for math rendering.

plastex.sty

Included in the root directory is a LaTeX package plastex.sty. This package has some helper commands and environments:

The useimager environment

Everything in the useimager environment will be compiled with LaTeX and then rendered into SVG. This can be used for parts of the document that cannot be handled by plastex (yet). The imager is already automatically used for tikzpicture, hence this doesn't have to be wrapped in `useimager.

\ifplastex

The package defines a new variable \ifplastex. This can be used as follows:

\ifplastex
  % commands to be run when processed by plastex
\else
  % commands to be run when processed by a usual tex engine
\fi

\tph

A version of \texorpdfstring that now has three arguments, where the third argument is what plastex should use.