Guide for Developers

The organization of this site is exactly that of folders (i.e., the directory tree) under http://math.tntech.edu/e-math. The whole platform is produced by an experimental L^ATEX based open-editing environment, and allows participants to change its content. Pages are generated via latex2html which will convert L^ATEX documents into HTML pages.

[Admin] or [Edit] is linked to gomngr.cgi which provides a basic service, and through which contributing authors can create and update content of this site. Once a user logs in, sections or subsections are newly created after the existing section or subsection, edited, and deleted by the user. The core of HTML generator is nothing more than latex2html, producing a set of HTML files and PNG images for math formulas. When “updated,” sections and subsections are broken up and converted into separate HTML files by latex2html. These hypertexts of section-subsection are all anchored to the first page of the root node index.html. The navigation bar exactly corresponds to the titles of section or of subsection which is automatically done when the page is updated. For example, this HTML document is generated as http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/page1.html