New Book: _The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML_

[Gerry Mckiernan]

To Web4Libers

  As one with an interest and concern about legacy
formats and data, I was pleased to learn 
about _The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML_ , a book recently received here at Iowa State. Please find below the essential bibliographic information as well as a Back Cover summary and profile.

[This posting is informational and does not constitute an endorsement of the book or its publisher]

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian 
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

 
_The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML_

Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Eitan Gurari, Ross Moore and Robert Sutor 
Publisher: Addison-Wesley

ISBN: 0-201-43311-7
Binding: Paper 
Pages: 560
Copyright: 1999
Series: Tools and Techniques for     Computer Typesetting

Price: $36.95

_Back Cover Text_:

This book shows how you can publish LaTeX documents on the Web. LaTeX was born of the
scientist's need to prepare well-formatted information, particularly with pictures and mathematics
included; the Web was born of the scientist's need to communicate information electronically. Until
now, it has been difficult to find solutions that address both needs. HTML and today's Web browsers
deal inadequately with the nontextual components of scientific documents. This book, at last,
describes tools and techniques for transforming LaTeX sources into Web formats for electronic
publication, and for transforming Web sources into LaTeX documents for optimal printing. 

You will learn how to: 

     Make full use of Acrobat with LaTeX 
     Convert existing documents to HTML or XML 
     Use mathematics in Web applications 
     Use LaTeX to prepare Web pages 
     Read and write simple XML/SGML 
     Produce high-quality printed pages from Web-hosted XML or HTML pages 

You will find practical descriptions of: 

     LaTeX2HTML, which uses Perl to interpret LaTeX source and generate HTML 
     TeX4ht, which redefines LaTeX's macros to generate HTML or XML 
     Browser plugins, such as techexplorer, that are able to interpret mathematical markup directly 
     Tools for authoring and interpreting XML 
     Tools for translating XML into various output formats, using Cascading Style Sheets, DSSSL,
     or XSL 
     Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 

In addition to giving the Internet location of the software described in this book, the authors also
provide a full, annotated catalogue of URLs for the standards and documentation relating to this
fast-moving area. 

Many of the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in public software
archives, and the source code for examples has been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives.