5 Introduction

The L^ATEX2HTML program was written to convert L^ATEX into web pages. This program was written by a large number of authors, starting with Nikos Drakos, as detailed in its official online manual, written by Drakos and Ross Moore.

L^ATEX2HTML-FU is my distribution, fixing many bugs (described in Appendix A), improving the appearances, and simplifying installation and usage. The result is a tool that can reliably convert L^ATEX documents into professional looking web pages.

Such web pages provide a much more powerful document distribution system than converting them into pdf, because

• the web pages can be browsed without downloading the full document;
• the web pages are massively hyperlinked;
• the web pages can use all the power of the web such as interactive forms, linked search engines, cgi-bin scripts, etcetera.