COP701 Assignment 01

LaTeX to HTML converter

Problem statement
This is your first assignment in the COP 701 course.In this assignment your main objective is to convert a LaTeX document to an equivalent HTML document.
In pursuance of this objective, you will have to write a LaTeX to HTML converter from scratch.

The features(tags) of LaTeX which you all need to consider are:-

• \section
• \subsection
• \par
• \label
• \ref
• \textbf
• \textit
• \underline
• \enumerate
• \item
• tabular environment
  
• figure environment
  
• \includegraphics
• \caption
• Math mode with $...$
  
• \frac{numerator}{denominator}
• \sqrt
• $\sum... $
• $\int...   $

Some more commands, mathematical symbols, math-mode operators(for extra credit)

Workflow and subtasks

The entire assignment can be divided into the following sub-tasks:

• Learn about LaTeX in brief.
• Write a lexer i.e to do a lexical analysis of your LaTeX code and generate a string of tokens. Programs that you can use: flex, jflex
  
• Parse the sequence of tokens using parser such as yacc, CUP, ANTLR, bison (C++ or Java)
  
• Generate an AST(Abstract Syntax Tree) of your LaTeX code. link
  
• Map it to an equivalent AST of HTML.
  
• Generate the equivalent HTML code which can be viewed in any browser.
  

Links to important resources

• Know about Flex tool and performing lexical analysis using that.
• Some more resource regarding Flex.
• Introduction to an Abstract Syntax Tree.
• Bison parser generator
• YACC parser generator

Logistics

• The deadline for this assignment is 31/08/2018 at 11:59 pm.It is a hard deadline and will not be extended.
• Any form of plagiarism will not be tolerated.
• Submission will be made on Moodle.
• You are free to code in any language.
• You will graded on the output of your code,the coding style and your viva/presentation.