Tools

• Display and processing of DVI files
• Displaying TeX files (in a sort of WYSIWYG way)
• (La)TeX <--> Commercial Software Conversion
• SGML/XML and (La)TeX
• (La)TeX <--> HTML conversion
• Between (La)TeX and Acrobat(PDF)
• Writing source code inside (La)TeX
• Texinfo tools
• Spellchecking
• Hyphenation
• Misc.

• Display and processing of DVI files
  • xdvi man
  • xdvi & gsftopk Homepage
  • IDVI (DVI viewer Java applet) (Garth A. Dickie)
  • nDVI, a DVI viewer plugin for Netscape (Unix)
  • tmview (SVGA-lib based DVI-previewer)
  • Textures Reader (ftp) : free companion program to the Textures programmable publishing system, allowing users to read and print Textures documents and DVI files produced by other TeX systems.
  • PERL module to write DVI (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
  • Using source specials in xdvi
• Displaying TeX files (in a sort of WYSIWYG way)
  • Techexplorer
    • IBM's Techexplorer Hypermedia Browser
    • Techexplorer on IBM alphaWorks
    • readme (configuration notes and changes)
    • guide (pdf)
    • IBM techexplorer: Scientific Publishing for the Internet (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 295-308) (Robert S. Sutor And Angel L. Diaz)
  • Scientific Notebook - LaTeX Web browser (TCI Software Research) (1997)
  • Equation Magic Lite (OLE TeX-based Equation Editor for Win 3.1)
  • Equation Magic Lite 2.0 (OLE TeX-based Equation Editor for Win 95, Win 98 and Win NT 4.0)
  • Equation Magic 2.0 (commercial OLE TeX-based Equation Editor for Windows)
  • The Euromath System - The Structured Editor for Mathematicians (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 82-93) (Janka CHLEBÍKOVÁ)
• (La)TeX <--> Commercial Software Conversion
  • List of RTF/Word/WordPerfect <-> TeX/LaTeX converters (Hypertext version)
  • wp2latex (available on CTAN or here)
  • K-Talk ((La)TeX <-> Word converters)
  • word2x: Word 6 -> LaTeX conversion (among other features) (1997) (Ryurick M. Hristev)
  • Framemaker <-> LaTeX
  • la2mml, LaTeX -> FrameMaker conversion
  • Word2TeX and TeX2Word converters. Word2TeX is a converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft Word to save documents in LaTeX format. TeX2Word is a converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft Word to open TeX/LaTeX documents. (2003)
• SGML/XML and (La)TeX
  • SGML/XML and (La)TeX
  • TeXML, a converter from XML to TeX
  • XML and MathML from LaTeX using TeX4ht (Eitan Gurari and Sebastian Rahtz) (August 7, 1998)
  • xmltex: A non validating (and not 100% conforming) namespace aware XML parser implemented in TeX (David Carlisle, 2000-02-02)
  • XML and Vector Graphics Formats
  • SVG in Gnome
  • PassiveTeX: from XML to PDF (Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, 2001)
  • XML: A new start for the web (Michel Goossens, 2000)
• (La)TeX <--> HTML conversion
  • Conversion programs
    • LaTeX2HTML - homepage
    • LaTeX2HTML - reference manual (Nikos Drakos) (5 feb. 1996)
    • Hyperlatex, an extension package, to make a LaTeX document convertible to HTML, through an ad hoc program.
    • TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (Eitan M. Gurari) (March 1, 2000)
    • bibtex2html (BibTeX to HTML converter)
    • tohtml (Users Manual for tohtml - Producing true hypertext documents from LaTeX) (William Gropp, 1994?)
    • tth: a TeX to HTML translator (Ian Hutchinson) (1997)
    • math2html (LaTeX mathematics and tables to HTML3 translator)
    • Ltoh: a customizable LaTeX to HTML converter (Version 97e, 31 Mar 1997) (Russell W. Quong)
    • Html2tex, a translator from Html 2.0 to Latex2e
    • QWERTZ: a html to latex converter
    • Hevea (Latex -> HTML translator, written in O-CAML) (Luc Maranget) (1998)
    • vulcanize (Convert LaTeX files to HTML)
    • TeXpider (former Webbuilder) (TeX engine that directly outputs HTML)
    • TeX Converter, a windows front-end to a number of programs that convert TeX files to another format
    • LaTeX4Web (Eric Chopin, 2004)
  • Lists of conversion programs
    • HTML converters (from the WWW consortium)
  • Papers and examples of conversions
    • Comparative Review of World-Wide-Web Mathematics Renderers (Ian Hutchinson) (Dec. 1998)
    • Lessons learned from the translation of documentation from LaTeX to HTML (Xavier Leroy) (1995)
    • MathML conference 2000
    • From LaTeX to HTML and back (Michel Goossens and Janne Saarela) (TUGboat 16(3), 1995)
    • HTML Math Overview
    • TOM Conversion Service
    • Sample result with tex4ht
  • Other Markup Languages and experimentations
    • TeX to HTML Translation via Tagged DVI Files (Michael D. Sofka) (pdf)
    • Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like Markup (GELLMU),
    • The Gellmu Veterans Archive
    • The CURL Language
• Between (La)TeX and Acrobat(PDF)
  • See also PDFTeX on the engine page
  • pstotext (convert Postscript or PDF to plain text) (DEC's Virtual Paper project)
  • dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator (manual:pdf) (Mark A. Wicks) (19 Sep. 1999) An example slide presentation.
  • DVIPDF and Embedded PDF (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 231-241) (Sergey Lesenko)
  • From TeX to PDF (pdf) (local copy)
  • xpdf: a PDF viewer for X
  • AcroTeX: TeX and Acrobat (D.P. Story)
  • Using LaTeX to Create Quality PDF Documents for the World Wide Web (D.P. Story)
  • Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing (Markus G. Kuhn) (1998)
  • Presentations with TeX and PDF (UtopiaType)
  • Sample presentation in PDF done with TeX (UtopiaType)
  • DocuCom 2.0 (Zeon Corp.) (1998) (a set of softwares for PDF edition).
  • PFDZone: All the info on PDF
  • HyperTeX
    • HyperTeX (article by Arthur P. Smith)
    • HyperTeX FAQ
    • HyperTeX to PDF
    • A hyperTeX patch for xdvik (Timothy Murphy) (23 July 1995, 15 pages)
  • Niknak, a PS-to-PDF converter.
  • PStill (Shareware PS to PDF converter) (Frank Siegert)
  • NetDistiller
  • Pdfmarks: Links and Forms (D.P. Story)
  • The Pdfmark primer (T. Merz)
  • The pdfmark reference manual (Adobe Technical Note #5150)
• Writing source code inside (La)TeX
  • LGrind (source code pretty printing for various languages)
  • src2tex and src2latex (tools to write documented source)
  • prettyp (pretty-printer utilisant LaTeX).
  • Java2LaTeX (Java and JavaScript pretty printing)
  • DOC++ (documentation of C++ code with automatic generation of HTML pages and of a LaTeX document)
• Texinfo tools
  • TkMan (graphical hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser). Includes a Texinfo viewer in Tcl/Tk (screen dump)
  • texi2html (Texinfo --> HTML conversion)
• Spellchecking
  • Excalibur (Macintosh)
  • French dictionary for ISPELL (up-to-date, but alpha version)
  • French dictionary for ISPELL (not modified since Nov. 25 1996)
  • Jspell (DOS)
• Hyphenation
  • PERL module which creates object that provides information about hyphenation according to TeX's hyphenation patterns (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
  • Hyphenologist (word-split algorithms for European languages)
  • A small tutorial on the multilingual features of PatGen2 (Yannis Haralambous)
  • A small program called `fm' formats man pages and implements TeX's hyphenation algorithm in C. (Greg Lee ? Hawaii ? 1992 ?)
• AsTeR (convertisseur source (La)TeX -> audio)
  • Audio System For Technical Readings (dissertation) (May 1994) (T. V. Raman)
  • Interactive Audio Documents (T. V. Raman, David Gries) (1994)
  • Documents mean more than just Paper! (T. V. Raman, David Gries) (1994)
  • Documents are not just for printing (T. V. Raman) (8 march 1993)
  • TeXTaLK (T. V. Raman) (October 6, 1990)
  • An audio view of (La)TeX documents (T. V. Raman) (1992)
• ChkTeX (Jens T. Berger Thielemann) (ps)
• GlossTeX (tool for the automatic preparation of glossaries, lists of acronyms and sorted lists in general for use with LaTeX and MakeIndex)
• TeXProject (Stephane Bressan & Eitan Gurari) (manual)
• Occam: Occam's Razor And Macro Management (Laurent Siebenmann) (1995, 16 pages)
• javaTeX & web2java (Timothy Murphy) (29 July 1996)
• LogFilter, a program that monitors the logfiles TeX/LaTeX produces and presents them in an interactive environment to the user. (Kasper B. Graversen)