Converting TeX to HTML: was Looking for a serious TeX hacker

[Deyan Ginev]

Hello everyone,

LaTeXML is a substantial software application written in Perl, and - as
David mentioned - tracks a range of its own internal dependencies. That is
best served by hosting its releases in the Perl package ecosystem, CPAN. We
are just one letter off :-)
You can find the details here:
https://metacpan.org/dist/LaTeXML

You can similarly find tools like pandoc in Haskell's hackage:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc

or plastex in Python's pip:
https://pypi.org/project/plasTeX/

We've recently discussed that the only advantage of CTAN hosting would come
if we wanted to intentionally sync the latexml release cycle with the
texlive release cycle. That is a fresh topic of interest for us, as each
new LaTeX 3 update tends to lead to regressions in LaTeXML support for
related packages (e.g. xparse.sty) due to our limited support for TeX's
internals. In such situations latexml users face a challenge with
installing compatible components. That said, we are likely to brave the
LaTeX 3 storms as we are, at least for the coming year, as we  are still
treating that level of support as experimental.

Lastly, most of latexml's functionality does not require a locally
installed texlive or MikTeX (similarly to pandoc, plastex, tralics, hevea,
...) and can be installed and used standalone.

Greetings,
Deyan


On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 10:25 AM David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 15:04, Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone know why LaTeXml hasn't been uploaded to CTAN?  This is
>> necessary for inclusion in TeXLive and perhaps MiKTeX.
>>
>
> You could ask Bruce:-)
>
> Even if it were on ctan, I'm not sure it would be possible to add to
> texlive. It's not impossibly difficult to install but does have  quite a
> large set of perl module dependencies, so you may need a few iterations of
> cpan install to get it running. Certainly the minimalist perl that comes
> with texlive on some platforms  would not be enough
>
> Incidentally you can try the last installation I did at
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> https://texlive.net/run?%25%20!tex%20latexml%0A%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%7Bamsmath%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0A%0Ahello%20world%0A%5Cbegin%7Balign%7D%0Aa&=b%5C%5C%0Ab&=a%0A%5Cend%7Balign%7D%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D
>
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