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1998 to 1999

During this period large parts of LATEX2HTML have been overhauled and compatibility with Perl 4 broken once and for all. The 99.2 release is the first known to work out of the box on several UNIX systems as well as on Windows 95, 98, NT and OS/2. The number of supported LATEX packages is bigger than ever.


Thanks to Adalbert Perbandt for testing every second alpha/beta release of 99.2 on OS/2 and ensuring that things work ok there.


Proposals for Future Development:

LATEX2HTML-NG

Developed by Marcus Hennecke this is a version of LATEX2HTML that addresses various issues, not currently handled in the best way by version V97.1. These include: Many of these features have been the inspiration for new code written for LATEX2HTML V98.1.


The current version of LATEX2HTML-NG can be obtained from the developer's repository, in the directory http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/ng-user.
Beware that the files there are not compatible with those of the same name that come with the current version of LATEX2HTML.

Extended Capabilities in Web browsers

The following areas are the subject of active development within the Web community. Limited support is available within LATEX2HTML for some of these features, using the -html_version 4.0 command-line switch.
style-sheets:
proposals for a flexible mechanism to allow cascading (CSS) and DSSSL, within HTML 4.0.
XML:
eXtensible Markup Language.

MathML:
Mathematical Markup Language.

CML:
Chemical Markup Language.

Fonts:
further support for non-standard font encodings.

Icons:
Alternative sets of icons for navigation buttons and other purposes.
For some background on these technologies read Michel Goossens' survey article ``Hyper-activity in the Web-world'' in CERN Computer Newsletter No. 227, and browse Axel Ramge's site for ideas on how they could be used with LATEX2HTML.


2015-09-13