Does Cygwin support latex ?

[Aaron Gray]

>> Does Cygwin have latex or do I use tex ?
>
> Cygwin's teTeX installation includes both tex and latex, as well as a 
> number of other TeX-related programs.  (TeTeX is described as a "complete 
> TeX distribution"; these days, LaTeX is considered a required part of such 
> a thing.)
>
>> I have an existing project and make file, possibly from Unix, and it uses 
>> latex and latex2html.
>>
>> I have installed tex but it does not seem to have a tex2html command.
>>
>> What commands and what packages do I need ?
>
> LaTeX2HTML is actually a completely separate program from TeX/LaTeX/etc, 
> though it (of course) processes LaTeX input files.  I don't believe that 
> there is currently a Cygwin package for it, so I suspect you'll need to 
> install it directly.
>
> The official LaTeX2HTML website is here: http://www.latex2html.org/; it 
> contains downloads, though it seems fairly sparse on installation info.
>
> In addition, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/suvrit/work/l2h.html contains 
> some basic instructions for installing it on Cygwin.  A Google search on 
> "latex2html cygwin" finds others as well.

Many thanks,

Aaron


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