Basic Translations

  • LaTeX: a language for authoring content
  • Objective: conversions to representations suitable for display and manipulation
  • Desirable: one source, many targets
    • PDF: presentation-oriented view
    • DocBook: logical-oriented perspective
    • HTML and OpenOffice: reside somewhere in between
  • Approach: find an appropriate command line
\documentclass{article}  
\begin{document}  
   Hello World!  
\end{document}  
pdflatex hello hello.pdf


htlatex hello hello.html


oolatex hello hello.sxw
OpenOffice


dblatex hello hello.xml
DocBook

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