html2textbook?

[Christian Neuss]

> Has anyone got any experience to share about converting html text
> into a text book?
>
> I have to maintain drug & poison monographs as ascii text in Sybase
> for - (1)ascii text file distribution (2)html via a perl filter,   and
> (3)a printed text book.  I would like to convert the html directly
> into some sort of camera ready text for the printers but can't   seem
> to find any way to do this.  Suggestions?

I haven't done it yet, but it has been on my list for a long long time
(and perhaps such a tool already exists): Through simple replacement of
strings - e.g. through a Perl script - HTML can be converted to LaTeX.
An excellent implementation of TeX/LaTeX is already part of the NEXTSTEP
distribution, so this is no problem.

LaTeX produces high quality output with no sweat at all, ands the HTML
to LaTeX conversion is straightforward.
  <H1> Header 1 </H1>     ->     \section{Header 1}
  <i> italic </i>         ->     {\it italic}
and so on.

Hope this helps,
Chris
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