[OS X TeX] Hevea

[Alan Munn]

At 7:17 PM -0700 2/17/05, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:
>What box?  There is no OS X binary!  If ``out of the box'' means, 
>once you create the make file and do all that finicky unix stuff, 
>and finally get a binary in the right directory, then figure out the 
>cmd-line call, then ``it works''; well, that is hardly ``out of the 
>box'', IMHO.
>
>On 17-Feb-05, at 6:00 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:
>
>>I have had much better results than either of these two packages with
>>hevea http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/  which works well
>>straight out of the box.
>>
>>Alan
>>

I hesitate to respond to this, having just joined the list, and not 
wanting to begin a flame war.  I guess I didn't quite realise that 
'out of the box' might not always be interpreted in a relative way as 
I used it.  So yes, hevea is not a Cocoa application, but it does 
work well in that I can produce a LaTeX document and with a single 
command create pretty reasonable HTML.  Also, my suggestion was made 
in the context of two other non-GUI apps (latex2html and tex4ht).

Since installing a package like hevea is not much different than 
installing a LaTeX package from CTAN, I assumed that people on this 
list would not object to the suggestion. In particular, (as another 
poster noted) there is an OS X binary download and the 'finicky unix' 
stuff is simply two copy commands.

Anyway, sorry if I misled anyone.

Alan

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