file: NOSUPPORT (for ltx2x) When I wrote ltx2x it was in a different century and for a different employer. At that time I was involved in a project for storing a large series of SGML tagged documents in a database. The intention was that queries could be made against the database, couched in terms of the SGML DTD, to retrieve (portions of) the documents. Some retrievals would be for just reading, others would be by the series authors to paste text into new documents in the series. There were no restrictions on how the documents could be produced, except that they had to be in plain ASCII; some authors used LaTeX, others used proprietry word processing systems, and others a plain text editor. Camera ready copies of the documents were also required for publication. I wrote ltx2x to provide an automated means of converting LaTeX tagged documents to SGML tagged documents. Someone else wrote a converter from SGML to LaTeX as it was determined that LaTeX was the best means of generating high quality camera ready copies. This all actually worked! At the time I wrote ltx2x I think that there was no other similar tool available that could provide a configurable conversion process --- I at least configured ltx2x to operate like the detex program, to convert to HTML, and to SGML (this was in the days before XML). The major problem with the architecture of ltx2x was that it did its own parsing of the LaTeX source, and the only robust LaTeX parser is TeX. A new kind of LaTeX macro in a document required extending the ltx2x source code and recompiling. I am now with another employer and as far as I know the SGML database idea has lapsed. Therefore I have no work-related imperitive to maintain ltx2x. Also, except for conversion of simple LaTeX into HTML, I no longer use it myself. Eitan Gurari's TeX4ht system is also a configurable converter and uses TeX as the parser, so eliminating any need to keep recompiling the basis system. I have effectively retired my use of ltx2x in favour of TeX4ht. The homepage for TeX4ht is at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht The bottom line is that I will no longer provide even the minimal support for ltx2x that I have done for the past three years or so. I regret having to say this but feel it is probably best for any current or future users to know what the situation is. If anyone wishes to take over support or development of ltx2x I will be very pleased. The majority of the code is in the public domain and the remainder is available under the LaTeX Project Public License, so anyone can make any changes they like. Just let me know if you want to do anything so I have a record of what might happen. Peter Wilson (peter.r.wilson@boeing.com) 2001/07/01