An HTML/CSS schema for TeX primitives— generating high-quality responsive HTML from generic TeX

Abstract

I present a schema for translating TEX primitives to HTML / CSS . This translation can serve as a basis for (very) low-level TEX-to- HTML converters, and is in fact used by the R US TEX system – a (somewhat experimental) implementation of a TEX engine in Rust, used to convert L A TEX documents to XHTML – for that purpose. Notably, the schema is accurate enough to yield surprisingly decent (and surprisingly often “the exactly right”) results on surprisingly many “high-level” L A TEX macros, which makes it adequate to use in lieu of (and often even instead of) dedicated support for macros and packages.