The World Wide Web has made it possible to use and disseminate
documents
as ``hypertext.'' One of the major advantages of hypertext over conventional
text is that references to other documents or items can be linked directly
into the document, allowing the easy retrieval of related information. A
collection of documents can also be read this way, jumping from one document
to another based on the interests of the reader. This does require that the
hypertext documents be extensively cross-linked.
Unfortunately, most existing documents are designed as
linear documents. Even worse, most authors still think of documents as linear
structures, to be read from front to back. To deal with this situation, a
number of
tools have been created that take documents in an existing word-processing
system or markup language and generate ``HTML,'' the hypertext markup language
used on the Web.
While this process makes a single document available in a convenient form on
the Web,
it does not give access to cross-document linking, a major advantage of
hypertext. This manual describes a program, tohtml, that takes LaTeX
input
files, as well as files of link information, and produces a hypertext
document that can contain extensive cross-links. A related program,
doctext, aids in the generation of manual pages that can be referenced by a
LaTeX document.