Re: tool to convert html to latex

[Star King of the Grape Trees <thestar@fussycoder.id.au>]

Johannes Wiedersich wrote:

> Any ideas?
>
> I found gnuhtml2latex (on debian sarge), but that one has as mayor 
> drawbacks:
> - poor/wrong rendering of spcial characters (eg. umlauts)
> - supports only latex 2.09
>
> I have a rather long html document (many pages), that looks just 
> awfull as html.  Transition via html2text would require to manually 
> reformat bold and italic text and also renders 'special characters' 
> (like ") badly. 


I would probably attempt to use css (Cascading Style Sheets) to format 
that document, as it is already in html.