Converting structured LaTeX to other formats

David W. Farmer

American Institute of Mathematics

AIM collected works

Late 1990s-now: binders with an online catalog

Now: online collected works

Math papers online

Convert math papers to an online format

Papers traditionally available in PDF

Now: convert to html with knowls

Another example

One Moore example

SL2X: Structured LaTeX to XML

Separate the header, preamble, and bibliography

Pull out the macros, and expand some of them

Separate the sections, subsections, and subsubsections

In each (sub/subsub)section extract the environments

verbatim

equations

figures

lists and tables

theorems/definitions/equations/proofs

paragraphs

Find all the \label{...}s

Number everything

Reassemble the pieces

convert remaining markup: \emph{...}     to     < em >...< /em>,   etc.

wrap each environment in appropriate tags

make a separate file for each \label{...}ed object

convert \ref{...} and \cite{...} to appropriate links/knowls

Next steps

Convert to XML

Merge with an existing LaTeX to (HT/X)ML conversion program?

Handle a wider variety of LaTeX. How much?

Images, tables, macros,...

table in html