[tex4ht] Tables generated by htlatex are too complex for Kindle

[Ray Seyfarth]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Radhakrishnan CV <cvr at river-valley.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Ray Seyfarth <ray.seyfarth at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi tex4ht Fans!
> >
> > I have prepared a book using LaTeX which looks great as a printed book
> > (PDF).  However, to have an electronic version for Kindles and Nooks, I
> had
> > to convert the book to HTML.  The htlatex command does an outstanding
> job of
> > conversion to html, but the lines for the tables are too complex for the
> > Kindle to handle properly.
>
> TeX4ht generates the kind of tables as found in LaTeX documents.
>
> > Is there some way to tell htlatex to generate tables with border="1"?
>
> You might provide a simpler configuration for tabular structure after
> \begin{document} in the following fashion:
>
> the syntax is
>
> \Configure{tabular}
>  {at the start of table}
>  {at the end of table}
>  {at the beginning of row}
>  {at the end of row}
>  {before each cell}
>  {after each cell}
>
> \Configure{tabular}
>    {\HCode{<table width="100\%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
> border="1">}}
>    {\HCode{</table>}}
>    {\HCode{<tr style="background-color:\rowcolor">}}
>    {\HCode{</tr>}}
>    {\HCode{<td  align="left"
>            \ifnum \HMultispan>1 colspan="\HMultispan"\fi >}}
>    {\HCode{</td>}}
>
> The following is for alternate background colors for rows and unique
> color first row.
>
> \def\rowcolor{\ifnum\HRow=1
>    \#aaaaff;\else\ifodd\HRow\#f0f0f0;\else\#fdeded;\fi\fi}
>
> Hope this will help your purpose.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Radhakrishnan
>

Thanks for your suggestion.  I may end up needing to know how to configure
the tabular environment.

Last night I ran across a reference to using a configuration file
specifying pic-tabular and I believe that this will take care of my needs
pretty well.  I can have all my tables be images and produce a nice looking
ebook.  It would be nicer to have an HTML table so that increasing the font
size would make the table text larger, but I am happy enough to have a
workable solution.

I also have modified /etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env to make the images a little
larger (-x 1800) and darker (--gamma 1.5).  With these changes I have
tables and math which look much better on the Kindle.  Before the math
images were a light gray and hard to read.  Now they look pretty crisp.

I will retain your message in case I decide to try for HTML tables in the
future.

Thanks

Ray

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