A turnkey command for converting a LaTeX source to ar5iv-style HTML, via LaTeXML.

Use the published dockerhub image (under a Unix OS) as:

$ docker run -v "$(pwd)":/docdir -w /docdir \
             --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
             latexml/ar5ivist:2402.29 --source=main.tex --destination=html/main.html

Grab a tea or coffee: the average conversion of an arXiv document today takes ~2 minutes, but ar5iv uses a max timeout of upto ~45 minutes.

build with:

$ cd ar5ivist-base
$ docker build --tag ar5ivist-base:latest .
$ cd ../ar5ivist
$ docker build --tag ar5ivist:latest .

run (under a Unix OS) with:

$ docker run -v "$(pwd)":/docdir -w /docdir \
             --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
             ar5ivist:latest --source=main.tex --destination=html/main.html

where main.tex is the name of your main document source, and html/main.html names the HTML5 destination file, with an (optional) destination directory.

Note that Docker will not be able to escape from the current directory from which you are running the command, so paths using a leading ../ will not work.

The ar5ivist-base Dockerfile was extracted for easy customization in downstream Dockerfiles. The new ar5ivist Dockerfile is a thin wrapper over the base container. You can follow that example to create your own Dockerfile, with additional dependencies, or completely reconfigured LaTeXML setup.

If the installation has succeeded, the ar5ivist run of LaTeXML will produce a log file under the .latexml.log extension. For main.tex, that would be main.latexml.log.

While latexml Warnings generally do not harm the fidelity of the HTML5 document, Error and Fatal reports do, and should ideally be avoided. In cases where you find troubleshooting a conversion run too obscure, please let us know by opening a new issue.

We should be able to provide some support, and eventually make the reporting interface more convenient.