- it's fast
- it's completely standalone as long as you don't want to
include ps figures
- ps figures can be included, but you'll need a reasonably
recent version of ghostscript (e.g., 2.6.2) and ppmtogif
- it's _really_ fast
- tables generated as HTML tables (i.e., no ugly gif images)
The most glaring omission is the absence of support for math mode. I
think it would be reasonably easy to implement it using HTML3, but I
just don't do enough math to make this worthwhile for me.
Just to backup my claims on speed a little, here some numbers.
latex2html-95 is the well-known perl translator, sdoc2html the
replacement:
make figures: figures exist:
latex2html-95: 118.87sec 42.41sec
sdoc2html: 8.01sec 0.40sec
The "make figures" column gives the time when starting from scratch
(i.e., all figures have to be generated). The "figures exist" column
gives the time when the figures have been translated to gif already.
The figure->gif translation uses ghostscript and that is the reason
it's so much slower. But in any case, sdoc2html is comfortably fast.
In fact, LaTeX-2e takes 6 seconds to translate the same file into .dvi
format.
Oh, in case you think this has nothing to do with Linux/Alpha: the
numbers were measured on an AlphaStation 500/6 333 running
Linux/Alpha... ;-)
The program is by no means complete, but if anybody is interested in
making it better, just give a holler.
So, now back to work...
--david