<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META name="GENERATOR" content="hevea 1.10"> <META name="Author" content="Luc Maranget"> <LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual.css"> <TITLE>How to get started</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY > <A HREF="manual002.html"><IMG SRC="contents_motif.gif" ALT="Up"></A> <A HREF="manual004.html"><IMG SRC="next_motif.gif" ALT="Next"></A> <HR> <H2 CLASS="section"><A NAME="htoc2">1</A>  How to get<A NAME="getstarted"></A> started</H2><P> Assume that you have a file, <TT>a.tex</TT>, written in L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X, using the <TT>article</TT>, <TT>book</TT> or <TT>report</TT> style. Then, translation is achieved by issuing the command: </P><PRE CLASS="verbatim"># hevea a.tex </PRE><P>Probably, you will get some warnings. If H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A does not crash, just ignore them for the moment (Section <A HREF="manual006.html#trouble">4</A> explains how to correct errors).</P><P>If everything goes fine, this will produce a new file, <TT>a.html</TT>, which you can visualize through a HTML browser.</P><P>If you wish to experiment H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A on small L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X source fragments, then launch H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A without arguments. H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A will read its standard input and print the translation on its standard output. For instance: </P><PRE CLASS="verbatim"># hevea $x \in \mathcal{E}$ ^D <I>x</I> &#X2208; <FONT COLOR=red><I>E</I></FONT> </PRE><P>Incidentally, notice that the symbol “∈” translates to the appropriate numerical character reference and that the calligraphic letter “<FONT COLOR=red><I>E</I></FONT>” renders as a red “<I>E</I>”. You can find some more elaborate <A HREF="http://hevea.inria.fr/examples/index.html">examples</A> in the on-line documentation.</P><HR> <A HREF="manual002.html"><IMG SRC="contents_motif.gif" ALT="Up"></A> <A HREF="manual004.html"><IMG SRC="next_motif.gif" ALT="Next"></A> </BODY> </HTML>