The Latex Web Companion: Integrating Tex, Html, and XML

by Sebastian Rahtz, Michel Goossens, Eitan M. Gurari, et al.

Book Overview

Shows how you can publish LaTeX documents on the Web. This book describes tools and techniques for transforming LaTeX sources into Web formats for electronic publication, and for transforming Web... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201433117
• ISBN13: 9780201433111
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

very handy

I am an user of latex on linux for sometime now. The possibillities are uncountable with this excellent software. This book touches on the use of tex and latex for the web. Being not that experienced with all the possibillities this book is very usefull. It is a good introduction for converting latex and tex files to documents for the web. If you can grasp all the stuff in this book you will be able to easily prepare all kinds of documents for the web and in the end save a lot of time lost with programming html yourself.Don't expect to much examples and user details, it has an excellent index and reference list to get you started.There is a lot of math stuff in this book, so trying to get a lot of formula's on the web this will certainly be of help. I am not into math so a couple pages could be skipped.Concluding: want to get started with latex and the web, want to make good documents for the web on a fast and good way, this is the book for you.

Almost definitely recommended

I have found this book almost as useful and interesting as the LaTeX Companion. I think that it gives enough information about sharing TeX and LaTeX texts on the web, but the chapters covering pdfTeX and SGML/XML applications could be more detailed. I have found that there is another big problem - with every day coming the information tends to get older and older. I can fully recommend buying this book today, but I am not sure if I would do it once more after half a year has passed. If you were interested in transforming TeX into PDF, I would recommend also the LaTeX Graphics Companion, or some other book introducing the problematic of PostScript and PDF.