General information

H^EV^EA is a quite complete and fast L^AT_EX to HTML translator. H^EV^EA is written in Objective Caml.

H^EV^EA now outputs “modern” HTML (version 5).

The source distribution (see below) should compile on any Unix platform where Objective Caml version 3.12 or later is installed.

Documentation

• H^EV^EA on-line manual.
• Translations achieved using H^EV^EA, including some specific tests.

Some additional documentation on H^EV^EA internals and usage is available.

• An article that describes the implementation of H^EV^EA, available in HTML (in French).
• A report by Nicolas Tessaud, on his experience of extending H^EV^EA (in French).
• Another article that describes how I used H^EV^EA to translate 14 documents written by 14 different authors. This article has been published in Eutypon, the newsletter of the Greek TeX Friends Group.

Development

H^EV^EA on github.

Distribution

Current version is 2.36. The distribution contains (HTTP access):

• Full source, including the following README and hevea.sty files.
• User manual, in Postcript, PDF and as a bundle of HTML files.
• For users that insist on producing HTML version 4.01 (transitional), we provide a frozen version (1.99).
• Some older versions of hevea are available here.

Binary ports

• opam  H^EV^EA is available on opam, the OCaml package manager. Once opam is installed, getting hevea is as simple as

  % opam update
  % opam install hevea
  

• Windows (Win32) Philip A. Viton ported H^EV^EA to Windows. His port is available from here.
• Others...   Check for hevea on your package system: no other software has the same name! H^EV^EA have been reported to be present on many Linux systems, and on MacPorts.

User mailing list

H^EV^EA users have their mailing list. Come and join us!

License

H^EV^EA can be considered free software by almost everybody. See the LICENSE file. The manual is released under the Free Document Dissemination Licence.

H^EV^EA licensing policy follows the one of Objective Caml. Basically, H^EV^EA is covered by the Q Public License, while parts of the OCaml runtime that are included in the distribution are covered by the GNU Library General Public License. Details are available in the Objective Caml distribution.