Is it possible to give your webpage that lovely scientific LaTeX look somehow? I tried several LaTeX to HTML converters. However they seem to concentrate on correct representation of formulas leaving design in a poor state. In the particular case, design is very important.
Are there any converters? Alternatively, are there any css sheets (I could make gif's of formulas)
General ⇒ LaTeX web design?
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Re: LaTeX web design?
Could you be more specific about what aspect of the professionalism of design you want to preserve?
Some the the subtle features that make LaTeX so pretty, such as pair kerning, ligatures, automatic hyphenation, optimized white-space usage and paragraph layout, are just not going to be possible on the web, at least not without rendering the entire page as an SVG or something like that (and even then you need to worry about how well browsers will support it).
Some the the subtle features that make LaTeX so pretty, such as pair kerning, ligatures, automatic hyphenation, optimized white-space usage and paragraph layout, are just not going to be possible on the web, at least not without rendering the entire page as an SVG or something like that (and even then you need to worry about how well browsers will support it).
Re: LaTeX web design?
General stuff, like formatting and font style is essential. I have tried a couple converters and they mostly failed even at very basic tasks.
By the way, SVG seems to be an interesting alternative. What is the best way to convert LaTeX -> SVG? Maybe PDF->SVG?
By the way, SVG seems to be an interesting alternative. What is the best way to convert LaTeX -> SVG? Maybe PDF->SVG?
LaTeX web design?
Inkscape can convert PDF to SVG. (Save as "SVG Plain" for the web.) There's some other info about converting LaTeX or LaTeX diagrams to SVG here and here. My own experience with this is fairly limited.
I wouldn’t get too excited about this though. Remember that some browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer, the most common browser there is!) don’t support SVGs except with plugins. You might need a .png or .jpg fallback.
As for preserving “font style” and “formatting”, well, those are still too huge issues. I’ve had the best luck using htlatex/TeX4ht for conversions, though I’ve done so sparingly. Any half-way decent conversion should preserve thinks like italics, bold, small-caps, and things like that. But if by ”formatting” you mean any of the things I mentioned above, you may be out of luck.
If you like the default Computer/Latin modern fonts, you might look at the @font-face kit for Latin modern available at Font-Squirrel, for embedding it in a web page. It isn’t a great screen font, though (in my opinion).
I wouldn’t get too excited about this though. Remember that some browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer, the most common browser there is!) don’t support SVGs except with plugins. You might need a .png or .jpg fallback.
As for preserving “font style” and “formatting”, well, those are still too huge issues. I’ve had the best luck using htlatex/TeX4ht for conversions, though I’ve done so sparingly. Any half-way decent conversion should preserve thinks like italics, bold, small-caps, and things like that. But if by ”formatting” you mean any of the things I mentioned above, you may be out of luck.
If you like the default Computer/Latin modern fonts, you might look at the @font-face kit for Latin modern available at Font-Squirrel, for embedding it in a web page. It isn’t a great screen font, though (in my opinion).