Writing HTML code directly from LaTeX?

Question

At exporting a LaTeX file to HTML via tex4ht I have to write some HTML comments to the HTML source. So I would like to write the HTML code in the LaTeX file and let tex4ht export it directly. How can I achieve this? Are there some special LaTeX commands to do this?

I found a solution: \HCode{} but now I can't export to pdf any more. Is there a way to mask out this tex4ht command for other latex interpreters? — raulix, Jun 09 '11 at 22:03
raulix: You should add that (with Caramdir's comment) as an answer so that others who look for this will see that it has an answer. — Andrew Stacey, Jun 10 '11 at 07:05
you can also use ifpdf if you're using pdf(la)tex or ifxetex if you're using XeTeX. — raphink, Jun 10 '11 at 07:52

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '11 at 08:04

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\def\HCode#1{}
...
\begin{document}
...
\HCode{<!--comment-->}

It works. tex4ht writes the comment and pdflatex ignores the tag. Fine.

answered Jun 10 '11 at 08:04

raulix

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To get this to work with both pdflatex and htlatex I needed to use \ifpdf\def\HCode#1{}\fi. – Peter Grill Oct 01 '14 at 18:09

Writing HTML code directly from LaTeX?

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