Many attempts and standards have been introduced to standardize the transmission and display of scientific text, formulae, and diagrams across the web. These include, but are not limited to MathML, SVG, and the canvas HTML5 element. The issue with these is that although they are supported on most browsers, the creation of content within these constructs can be verbose or require programming. 


New tools have produced great value, namely MathJAX, which has solved rendering of mathematical formulae online. However, MathJAX is {\it only} focused on the math, not typesetting or generating graphics.


Tools such as {\tt latex2html} have been released for converting typeset documents to HTML, however, they require a terminal, are not real-time, and do not render interactive graphics and diagrams. This solution also generates several static pages on a user's system, which still requires an upload for them to be made useful. 


Since the successes of typesetting and word-processing, authoring the web through various forms of HTML has grown into myriad expressions. Today thousands of web frameworks exist, at a time where the common Web browser is a viable computing platform, and through programming we can provide real-time authoring of interactive mathematics across multiple devices with poly-sensory interactivity.


The Web has an infinite number of expressions, although it has strict functional specification. The general idea of this project is to combine two standards; \LaTeX\ for how things should ``look'', and HTML5 as the standards for how things should ``function''.


The gap that should be filled is simple. Static HTML pages are not enough---diagrams need to be generated, and if interactivity is required, then dynamic computations need to be made, which requires a dynamic language such as JavaScript. However, the authorship of HTML and JavaScript is not easy, thus using an existing standard de facto language like \LaTeX\ for generating interactive documents can optimize the authorship of interactive material to help accelerate education.


Donald Knuth, who was the first man to call programming an Art, successfully paved the way for us to document science in a consistent and beautiful way through \TeX. His creation was the result of frustration in producing mathematical books digitally, and to enable the authorship of {\bf beautiful} books, ``Gentle Reader: This is a handbook about TeX, a new typesetting system intended for the creation of beautiful books---and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics'' \cite[5]{texbook}.


This text is about LaTeX2HTML5, a new web-based typesetting system intended for creation of beautiful interactive books---and especially for books that contain of lot of mathematics. Donald Knuth, in his book ``The Art of Computer Programming'', said: ``Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do''. It is the Art that allows us to bridge the gap for those that are interested, and that is the expression at which this project strives. 


\begin{interactive}
\img{/app/assets/paper/devices.jpg}
\end{interactive}
\begin{print}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=400pt]{images/devices.ps}
\end{center}
\end{print}

The Web and Typesetting