2008-12-07

Free software tools for converting LaTeX documents to XHTML+MathML:

• TeX4ht supports conversion to (X)HTML, MathML, OpenDocument, and DocBook.

  The following command will convert filename.tex to XHTML with MathML:

  htlatex filename "xhtml,mathml" " -cunihtf" "-cvalidate"
  

  TeX4ht is available in the Debian package tex4ht.

• Hermes is a grammar-based translator from LaTeX to Unicode-encoded XML+MathML+metadata.

  Hermes follows the steps below, in the specified order:

  1. semantically seeds a copy of your TeX source
  2. lets the TeX program do its job (texing) on this semantically enriched source
  3. parses the resulting semantic dvi
  4. generates the XML reference document, a semantic XML reflection of your TeX source.

  Some examples are provided here. In particular, there is a collection of articles from arxiv-math that were translated to XHTML+MathML.

• LXir is a tool to convert LaTeX documents to XML. The documentation is in French (which I cannot read) but it does mention XHTML and MathML. I haven’t quite gotten it to compile yet, but it looks interesting.