C. V. Radhakrishnan today pointed me to this discussion on the TeX4ht mailing list:
- http://tug.org/pipermail/tex4ht/2013q1/000719.html
(or more neatly, here.)
As far as I understand, TeX4ht won't support fontspec or XeLaTeX
technologies of using system fonts that do not have *.tfm's. In effect, by
adopting TeX4ht, one is likely to loose the features brought in by XeTeX.
However, here is another approach.
1. We translate all the Unicode character representations in the
document to Unicode code points in 7bit ascii which is very much palatable
to TeX4ht. A simple perl script, utf2ent.pl in the attached archive does
the job.
2. We run TeX4ht on the output of step 1.
3. Open the *html in a browser, I believe, we get what you wanted. See
the attached screen shot as it appeared in Firefox in my Linux box.
Here is what I did with your specimen document.
1. commented out lines that related to fontspec package from your
sources named as alex.tex.
2. added four lines of macro code to digest the converted TeX sources
3. ran the command: perl utf2ent.pl alex.tex > alex-ent.tex
4. ran the command: htlatex alex-ent "xhtml,charset=utf-8,fn-in" -utf8
(fn-in option is to keep the footnotes in the same document). I have used a
local bib file, mn.bib as I didn't have your bib database. biber was also
run in the meantime to process the bibliography database.
5. open the output, alex-ent.html in a browser. I got it as you see in
the attached alex.png.
Radhakrishnan's PERL script utf2ent.pl is#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
for my $file ( @ARGV ){
open my $fh, '<:utf8 br="" cannot="" die="" file:="" file="" open="" or=""> while( <$fh> ){
s/([\x7f-\x{ffffff}])/'\\entity{'.ord($1).'}'/ge;
print;
}
}
For Radhakrishnan's continuing comments on TeX4ht development, see
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