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I've been spending the last few days changing my revision control system from CVS to darcs, which meant, among other things, re-generating all the pages on my web site to make sure everything had been transferred over correctly. While I was doing that, I failed to generate the HTML versions of Refractions #1 and Refractions #2, so I changed my generation system.

What I had been using was ltoh, which had some good facilities for customization, but was basically all customization, so it would take quite a bit of work to get it working again. So I tried, again, the usual suspects of latex2html, hevea and tth, and while tth was adequate (it didn't fall in a screaming heap like the other two), it still wasn't good enough.

Then I tried TeX4ht, which is actually the most sensible LaTeX-to-HTML converter I've come across: most other LaTeX-to-HTML converters try to guess what the LaTeX means, and often require you to alter your source code to put in HTML-specific customizations. But TeX4ht does the sensible thing: it actually uses the LaTeX engine to process the LaTeX files (with its own special package which inserts suitable data for post-processing the .dvi output into HTML) and also it doesn't require you to alter your source files, but enables you to do customization in a separate config file. All in all, pretty cool; even if it doesn't work perfectly, it copes a lot better with my files than other ones have.