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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label hyper</title>
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<h3>Making hypertext documents from TeX</h3>
<p/>If you want on-line hypertext with a (La)TeX source, probably on the
World Wide Web, there are four technologies to consider:
<ul>
<li> Direct <a href="FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html">(La)TeX conversion to HTML</a>;

<li> Use <a href="FAQ-texinfo.html"><i>Texinfo</i></a>,
  and use the <i>info</i> viewer, or convert the <i>texinfo</i>
  to HTML;
<li> Use Adobe Acrobat, which will preserve your typesetting
  perfectly
  <a href="FAQ-acrobat.html">Making Acrobat PDF documents from LaTeX</a>;
<li> The hyperTeX conventions (standardised <code>\</code><code>special</code>
  commands); there are supporting macro packages for Plain TeX and
  LaTeX).
</ul>
<p/>The HyperTeX project extended the functionality of all the
LaTeX cross-referencing commands (including the table of contents)
to produce <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands which are parsed by DVI processors
conforming to the HyperTeX guidelines;
it provides general hypertext links, including those
to external documents.
<p/>The HyperTeX specification says that conformant viewers/translators
must recognize the following set of <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands:
<dl>
<dt>href:<dd> <code>html:&#60;a href = "href_string"&#62;</code>
<dt>name:<dd> <code>html:&#60;a name = "name_string"&#62;</code>
<dt>end:<dd> <code>html:&#60;/a&#62;</code>
<dt>image:<dd> <code>html:&#60;img src = "href_string"&#62;</code>
<dt>base_name:<dd> <code>html:&#60;base href = "href_string"&#62;</code>
</dl>
<p/>The <em>href</em>, <em>name</em> and <em>end</em> commands are used to do
the basic hypertext operations of establishing links between sections
of documents. 
<p/>Further details are available on <a href="http://arXiv.org/hypertex/">http://arXiv.org/hypertex/</a>; there
are two commonly-used implementations of the specification, a
modified <i>xdvi</i> and (recent releases of)
<i>dvips</i>. Output from the latter may be used in recent
releases of <i>ghostscript</i> or Acrobat Distiller.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyper">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyper</a>
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