1 How to get started

Assume that you have a file, a.tex, written in L^AT_EX, using the article, book or report style. Then, translation is achieved by issuing the command:

# hevea a.tex

Probably, you will get some warnings. If H^EV^EA does not crash, just ignore them for the moment (Section 4 explains how to correct errors).

If everything goes fine, this will produce a new file, a.html, which you can visualise through a html browser.

If you wish to experiment H^EV^EA on small L^AT_EX source fragments, then launch H^EV^EA without arguments. H^EV^EA will read its standard input and print the translation on its standard output. For instance:

# hevea
$x \in \mathcal{E}$
^D
<span style="font-style:italic">x</span> &#X2208; <span style="color:red"><span style="font-style:italic">E</span></span>

Incidentally, notice that the symbol “∈” translates to the appropriate numerical character reference and that the calligraphic letter “E” renders as a red “E”. You can find some more elaborate examples in the on-line documentation.