Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:03:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:30:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:20 -0700, Liontaur <liontaur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Related but slightly OT, I've never had much luck getting it the other way
> > > > around, HTML to PDF. It's often off a bit. I can't remember off the top of
> > > > my head what ports i've tried but yea. Either the images are wonky or my
> > > > forms go wonky.
> > > 
> > > This is simply because HTML is not typesetting-capable. Depending
> > > on the source of the PDF file, it may help to convert from THAT
> > > format instead from PDF. E. g. if you have a .tex (LaTeX) file
> > > that has been the source of the PDF file, you can use a converter
> > > from LaTeX to HTML, often with acceptable results.
> > > 
> > > The HTML concept, especially when incorporating CSS for formatting,
> > > _can_ be used to gain a bit typographic quality, e. g. by defining
> > > parameters for "screen" and for "printed" media. Still it suffers
> > > from things like maintaining good grey values, hypenation and
> > > ligatures.
> 
> You can add proper justification to the list that HTML doesn't do well!
> 
> > 	Hmm. The ligatures that looked so great in my .tex/PDF output
> > 	got lost.
> 
> Very few programs do ligatures well. If you're using unicode text, you can use
> them directly in your text, like this: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
> 
> How well these look depends on the fonts used. I've got a whole list of handy
> unicode characters on my webpage. See the entry marked 2010-10-16.
> 
> >       Only that somehow, HTML4 can read the hex code that
> > 	abiword's html created.  :-)   Also, the `` and '' look great in
> > 	Times.  I fixed the page numbers--all had to go away; I edited
> > 	the chapter headings--all by hand.  What's left are the hundreds
> > 	of broken paragraphs.
> 
> You might fare better by taking the TeX souce, run it though detex(1) and use
> markdown [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/] do create HTML.
> 
> > 	What utility take a LaTeX file -> HTML?  ((Be nice to have both
> > 	*strictly professional typeset* and then HTML.  I can add
> > 	indents for AE style paragraphing, and much more.  Fix the
> > 	hyphenation, etc.
> 
> Next to the obvious textproc/latex2html? :-)
> 



	Yeah, found it with locate!  And found some very interesting
	results.  I haven't check my .tex source, but the latex2html 
	produces some **very** interesting results.  

	In my lates j.html file there are hundreds of "broken
	paragraphs" such as:

		She stopped and
		turned around.

		"What?" he said.

		"I just thought I'= taking the 
		wrong course."  

	And so on.  There is a "<br>" embedded in hundreds of
	paragraphs.  Now I  have the output from latex2html to check
	against, things can be that much easier.  Do you or does any
	regex wiz have a way of catching embedded <br>'s within
	sentences?

	It might save me.  It would certainly make things _easier_!
	I'll play around with /[a-zA-z]<br><[A-Za-z].   Hope the 
	&gt; and &lt aren't a problem in regexland....  :-)


	thanks much,

	gary


> Roland
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