Documents Live, a web authoring and publishing system
Documents Live, a web authoring and publishing system
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To get acquainted with the document, the best thing to do is to select the "Collapse all sections" item from the "View" menu. This will leave visible only the titles of the top-level sections.
Clicking on a section title toggles the visibility of the section content. If you have collapsed all of the sections, this will let you discover the document progressively, from the top-level sections to the lower-level ones.
Generally speaking, anything that is blue is clickable.
Clicking on a reference link (like an equation number, for instance) will display the reference as close as possible, without breaking the layout. Clicking on the displayed content or on the reference link hides the content. This is recursive: if the content includes a reference, clicking on it will have the same effect. These "links" are not necessarily numbers, as it is possible in LaTeX2Web to use full text for a reference.
Clicking on a bibliographical reference (i.e., a number within brackets) will display the reference.
Speech bubbles indicate a footnote. Click on the bubble to reveal the footnote (there is no page in a web document, so footnotes are placed inside the text flow). Acronyms work the same way as footnotes, except that you have the acronym instead of the speech bubble.
By default, discussions are open in a document. Click on the discussion button below to reveal the discussion thread. However, you must be registered to participate in the discussion.
If a thread has been initialized, you can reply to it. Any modification to any comment, or a reply to it, in the discussion is signified by email to the owner of the document and to the author of the comment.
The blue button below that says "table of contents" is your tool to navigate in a publication.
The left arrow brings you to the previous document in the publication, and the right one brings you to the next. Both cycle over the publication list.
The middle button that says "table of contents" reveals the publication table of contents. This table is hierarchical structured. It has sections, and sections can be collapsed or expanded. If you are a registered user, you can save the layout of the table of contents.
First published on Friday, Feb 28, 2025 and last modified on Friday, Feb 28, 2025
It cannot be easier to assemble documents in LaTeX2Web to create a web publication.
To create your publication, go to your documents dashboard. At the bottom, you have two buttons.
The first button (Select documents for publication) produces a list of all documents that you can publish in your future publication. You can do then a multiple item selection ; after that, a text file with the selected titles will be downloaded to your computer. This step is not mandatory, but can be helpful to kickstart your publication content.
The second button (Submit a publication) is where things really happen. This takes you to a form with two inputs :
The publication is parsed line by line from the content description. Each line can be of two kinds :
Markdown sectioning commands consist of a prefix, followed by the section title. The prefix consists of a succession of hashtag # characters followed by a blank character. The number of hashtags indicates the sectioning level.
You can edit the document content directly in the web form, or do it in a text editor on your computer and paste the result afterwards into the form.
Here is an example (it is the start of the LaTeX2Web help center, which is a publication) :
# Introduction
Introduction to the LaTeX2web help
LaTeX for the non mathematician
FAQ
# Using LaTeX2Web
The LaTeX2Web workflow
The Inline Editor
Search engines and social media
Discussions
Control access to your documents
# LaTeX ReferenceOnce you have created a publication, it will appear at the bottom of your documents dashboard. Clicking of the "Edit" button will bring you back to the publication content edit form. There you can re-organize the publication, add or remove documents.
To add a document, you can go to the document dashboard, and select "Copy title" in the drop-down "Action" menu. Then you can paste the document title anywhere in your publication content before submission.
LaTeX2Web maintains two publications:
When you view a document in a publication, you have an extra button bar above the document that lets you navigate in the publication.
The left and right arrow lets you browse the documents in succession. Between the arrows, you have the table of contents. The table of contents is a mix of a very simple publication and usual document table of contents. The links bring you directly to a document, and you can collapse or expand the sections as if it was an ordinary LaTeX2Web document.
Visit these two publications and see how they work ! And remember, it is very easy to configure a publication. We do this almost every day !