[Tex/LaTex] How to efficiently convert TEI documents into LaTeX

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TEI documents have a lot of information that can be used for representation and style. Are there any tools to convert such documents into LaTeX in order to create good pdf/html etc. versions?

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It's an XML defined markup. There are XSLT stylesheets for this format from the same website you link to

https://www.tei-c.org/Tools/Stylesheets/

This is a set of XSLT 2.0 specifications to transform TEI XML documents to XHTML, to LaTeX, to XSL Formatting Objects, to OOXML (docx), and to ePub format. The files can be downloaded from the Releases area of https://tei.sf.net . They concentrate on the simpler TEI modules, but adding support for other modules is fairly easy. In the main, the setup has been used on ‘new’ documents, ie reports and web pages that have been authored from scratch, rather than traditional TEI-encoded existing material.

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No. See also the FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeXtoPlain

And this question: LaTeX macro expander

[Tex/LaTex] Convert LaTeX to HTML

Using PDF as an intermediate format when converting from LaTeX to HTML is not a very good idea. LaTeX and HTML are both mostly structural markup languages, which means you use them to describe the document structure (sections, emphasize, formulas etc.), whereas PDF is mostly about the representation of your document on the screen or paper. When converting LaTeX to PDF, you lose much of the structural information, and it cannot be successfully recovered by conversion from PDF to HTML.

It is much better to convert LaTeX directly to HTML. There are number of ways (WayBack Archive) how to do that, one I would recommend is by using htlatex. It is probably already part of your TeX distribution, is very powerful and flexible, and its use can be as simple as running

htlatex mydocument.tex

If you tell us more about your environment (which operating system do you use, what is your TeX distribution, your text editor/LaTeX IDE, how you generated the PDF file etc.) we may be able to give you more details on how to use htlatex.

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