From owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Thu Jul 28 15:01:34 1994 To: adam at xent dot com Subject: Welcome to latex2html Reply-To: Majordomo@mcs.anl.gov -- Welcome to the latex2html mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the following command in email to "latex2html-request@mcs.anl.gov": unsubscribe Or you can send mail to "Majordomo@mcs.anl.gov" with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe latex2html adam at xent dot com (Adam Rifkin) Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Fri Dec 2 04:25:11 1994 Cc: latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Subscribing and unsubscribing are not handled by the list but by the listserver. Mail to Majordomo@mcs.anl.gov with the word info as body, to get help, or do as following syntax describes: unsubscribe [] [
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if specified) from the named . Don't demoralize this group with continious "unsubscribe" messages. -- ============================================================================= Erwin Burgstaller |-| KNAPP Logistics Automation . |-| Guenther Knapp Strasse 5-7 Internet: ber@knapp.co.at |-| A-8075 Hart bei Graz Voice: +43 316/495-618 |-| Austria \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ \___/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Fri Dec 2 10:12:21 1994 Subject: LaTeX2HTML new release (0.7a2) Hi all, Here are a few announcements: New version of LaTeX2HTML for testing ===================================== You can pick up an alpha version 0.7a2 from http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/latex2html.tar Apart from many fixes the main changes since 0.6.4 are: (a) Substantial reduction in runtime memory requirements under certain circumstances. As an example of what can be done have a look at http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html which points to the 1000+ page LISP bible by Guy Steele. It was possible to convert this book on a Sun Sparc ELC with 24MB RAM (150MB virtual memory). (b) "Off-line" image conversion. This means you can successfully convert a document by switching image generation off. Any missing images can be processed afterwards without having to re-convert the rest of the text. (c) The "Troubleshooting" section of the manual has been extended. It even includes advice on how to cope with tilde's .~) To use the new version you will need DBM or NDBM (a Unix DataBase Management system). It should come as standard on most Unix systems. The installation script should warn you of any problems. LaTeX2HTML 0.7a2 and Perl 5 =========================== This version of LaTeX2HTML includes some fixes for making it compatible with Perl 5. Unfortunately I don't have Perl 5 yet so I would be grateful for some feedback on whether these fixes cover all the problems. Support for LaTeX2HTML ====================== I will be away all next week (Mon 5 - Fri 9) but I will have access to e-mail. Responses will be slower than usual :-) Announcements, fixes etc will be posted on the LaTeX2HTML info server at http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html as usual. LaTeX2HTML mailing list ======================= As was already pointed out, to remove yourselves from the mailing list send a message to: latex2html-request@mcs.anl.gov with the contents unsubscribe and not to the other 162 members of this list. Changes upto v0.7.X =================== More efficient implementation There has been a major overhaul of the way the source text is parsed and analysed in order to reduce the memory requirements of this process. This has been achieved by spawning off separate Unix processes to deal with each of the input'ed or include'd files. As each process terminates all the space that it used is reclaimed. Asynchronous communication between processes takes place using the Unix DataBase Management system (DBM or NDBM) which should be present on your system. To take advantage of these changes, it is necessary to split the source text into more than one files which can be assembled using the LaTeX input or include commands. ``Off-line'' Image Generation Two new options -no_images and -images_only allow ``off-line'' image conversion. The advantage of using these options is that the translation can be allowed to finish even when there are problems with image conversion. In addition it may be possible to fix manually any image conversion problems and then run LaTeX2HTML again just to integrate the new images without having to translate the rest of the text. More instructions on how to do this are included in the ``Troubleshooting'' section of the LaTeX2HTML manual. Can now use either the pbmplus or the netpbm libary. If netpbm is used then it is no longer necessary to get and install giftrans in order to generate transparent inlined images. Also, a new option map= in the command htmlimage can turn an included postscript image into an active image map. New options -no_images Do not attempt to produce any inlined images. The missing images can be generated "off-line" by restarting LaTeX2HTML with the option -images_only. -images_only Try and convert any inlined images that were left over from previous runs of LaTeX2HTML. -no_reuse Do not reuse images generated during previous translations. (This will enable the initial interactive session during which the user is asked whether to reuse the old directory, delete its contents or quit) -no_subdir Place the generated HTML files in the current directory. The default behaviour is to create (or reuse) another file directory. -ps_images Use links to external postscript images rather than inlined GIF images. Several small changes and bug fixes o A new configuration variable (TRANSPARENT_IMAGES) can be used to stop any inlined images generated from "figure" environments from being transparent. o Fixed problem which occurs when getcwd.pl is not part of the Perl library. o The option -address "" is now valid. o Fixed a problem with tables of contents. o Fixed problem with the use of the finger command when trying to find out the name of the user. o Added some support for tabbing environments. o HTML heading elements no longer contain other markup. o Fixed problem with optional argument in citation commands o Added some more support for LaTeX2e. o Fixed problem with displayed equations forcing all the remaining equations to be displayed. Cheers, Nikos. -- Nikos Drakos Computer Based Learning Unit nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/personal.html From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Thu Dec 15 09:47:45 1994 Posted-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 18:39:58 +0100 Subject: Re: include MPEG by latex2html Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Hi ! Here is an example of how to include movies to your HTML document by latex2html. I have tried it on my site an it works. Of course you have to put the right URLs as arguments. You can also change the "\htmladdimg{http://hugo.grenet.fr/logos/labsadminilog.gif}" with a simple text. _________________________________________________ \documentstyle[html]{article} \title{essai} \begin{document} {\Huge How to include Movies} \htmladdnormallink{\htmladdimg{http://hugo.grenet.fr/logos/labsadminilog.gif}}{http://hugo.grenet.fr/logos/labsad.gif} \end{document} __________________________________________________ To view MPEG files you should have the "mpeg_play" program in a known location on your system For more informations see the Mpeg Player Page at http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/mpeg_play/mpeg_play.html. Good luck. __________________________________________________________ Farouk El HAOUZI : Th'esard au Lab.S.A.D. Laboratoire de Statistique et Analyse des Donn'ees. Univ'ersit'e Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble II. E.Mail: farouk@labsad.grenet.fr T'el: 76.82.54.00 poste 57.69 ou 57.07 __________________________________________________________ From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Fri Dec 16 09:44:30 1994 Subject: Re: include MPEG by latex2html Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov >I would like to know if it is possible to use latex2html command >to embed movies, say MPEG to the WWW ? Yes it is possible. Have a look in the section "Example 4: Hypermedia Links in the Source Document" in the document at http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/doc/www94/www94.html which has an example on how to do it. > Moreover, what tools >should I have in order to view MPEG by mosaic ? It depends on the kind of machine you are using. Go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html and follow the appropriate link for your platform. >Thanks ! >Michael Cheers, Nikos. -- Nikos Drakos Computer Based Learning Unit nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/personal.html From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Wed Dec 21 04:05:17 1994 Subject: LaTeX2HTML and Perl 5 patches Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Hi all, Here are some patches and a new full distribution which make LaTeX2HTML work both with Perl 4 and Perl 5. They are still under testing so feedback will be appreciated. http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/latex2html-0.7a4.tar.gz ======================================================== This is the new full distribution. It is essentially the same as v0.7a2 modified to work with Perl 5. http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/patch0.7a2-to-0.7a4 ==================================================== This is a patch for those who already have v0.7a2 http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/patch0.6.4-to-0.7a4 ==================================================== Self explanatory. http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/patch0.6.4-to-0.6.4.1 ====================================================== This is for people who are unwilling or unable to upgrade from v0.6.4 to v0.7X and want to use Perl 5. The main difficulty with v0.7X is its requirement for the Unix Database Management system (DBM, NDBM..). To use a patch file copy it into the directory of the old latex2html version and type %patch < There have been two reports of strange behavior with v0.7a2 where latex2html goes into an infinite loop. Perhaps this is to do with DBM but I have been unable to verify it. Anybody had similar problems? Merry Christmas, Nikos. -- Nikos Drakos Computer Based Learning Unit nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/personal.html From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Wed Jan 11 15:09:11 1995 Subject: New version available (0.7a5) Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Hi all, The new version is at http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tmp/latex2html-0.7a5.tar-gz Unless something goes very wrong this will be the next "official" release. Changes since last announcement: + Strange looping problem fixed + Much improved inlined equation baseline alignment! (Thanks to Mark Segal ) Inlined equation bitmaps are now aligned correctly depending on whether they contain subscripts, superscripts etc. Don't ask how it's done! + Support for internationalization (Thanks to Martin Boyer ) A global variable LANGUAGE_TITLES can now be used to change the language in which some section titles (eg ``Table of Contents'') are printed. Currently supported languages are English and French but it is very easy to add support for more languages. See the manual for more. + Compatibility with Perl 5 + Support for hierarchical indices (Thanks to Peter Magnusson ) + Several other little problems fixed. See the Changes file for details. Enjoy, Nikos. -- Nikos Drakos Computer Based Learning Unit nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/personal.html From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Thu Jan 19 09:50:44 1995 Subject: LaTeX2HTML 95 (new version) available Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Hi all, This is to let you know that after fixing a couple of minor problems, version 0.7a5 has been repackaged as LaTeX2HTML 95 and is available from http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/latex2html.tar or http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/latex2html.tar-gz A patch is available at http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/previous-versions/patch0.7a5-to-95 The main changes since 0.7a5 are: + A redundant call to finger has been removed. This was causing long initial delays on some systems. + Fixed problem which caused the last character of a user's name to disappear + Added a ppmquant filter to make sure that images contain less than 256 colors before being converted to GIFs (thanks to Martin Boyer ) This version will remain unchanged for as long as it can be helped :-) Thanks to all who have contributed. Nikos. From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Mon Apr 3 11:52:04 1995 Subject: Announcement: Future support and further development X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov Dear All, this is to let you know about some changes that will affect the development and support for LaTeX2HTML in the future. First of all despite the freedom, encouragement and excellent working environment at the Computer Based Learning Unit of the Univ. of Leeds, I have moved on to another position. During the move a large backlog (several hundred) LaTeX2HTML-related messages, queries and bug-reports have accumulated. Apologies to all who have not received any replies... Future Support ============== Because of the current workload and the change in circumstances it is no longer possible for me to answer all the LaTeX2HTML queries I receive. I will try to respond as much as possible but in many situations enquirers will receive a standard reply :-( directing them to the archives and to this mailing list. LaTeX2HTML Archives =================== The searchable LaTeX2HTML archives (including messages from this mailing list, comments, bug reports, documentation, etc) will continue to be updated and maintained. They will be kept at the usual address at http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html Future Development ================== The development of LaTeX2HTML will continue but at a much slower pace. There are already contributions from others which need to be integrated into the main package. Another obvious candidate is the problem of the postscript to GIF conversion. Also, a project between the Computer Based Learning Unit at Leeds and some other institutions concerning an electronic journal is likely to involve contributions in terms of further enhancements to LaTeX2HTML. Cheers, Nikos. -- Nikos Drakos nikos@mpn.com ----- End Included Message ----- From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Mon May 15 16:02:26 1995 Subject: Re: Perl problem? Reply-To: ljc@llnl.gov Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov > Howdy. > > Having bruised my forehead sufficiently, it seemed about time for > me to give up and see if any of you more experienced Perl/ > Latex2html folks have any thoughts on a little problem I'm > having. > > When I run this: > > latex2html testrat.tex > This is LaTeX2HTML Version 95.1 (Fri Jan 20 1995) by Nikos Drakos, > Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. . . . > Generating postscript images using dvips ... > This is dvips 5.58 Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software > dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. > Error: No such file or directory I saw errors like this when the images.tex file needed to have personal *.sty files or external postscript files that latex could not find in its search path. The cure was to do "latex2html -no_images ...", then copy the missing objects into the new html directory. After this, I manual rerun latex on the images.tex file then rerun "latex2html -images_only ...". This has worked every time and a csh script can easily be written to do these steps automatically. The following script is what I use for a large (200 page) manual with many external PostScript figures and its own *.sty file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/csh -f # makehtml # written by Larry Cox # needed commands echo 'setenv L2H /h/pd7/cox/bin/latex2html' >>& makehtml.log setenv L2H /h/pd7/cox/bin/latex2html echo 'setenv CP /bin/cp' >>& makehtml.log setenv CP /bin/cp echo 'Making HTML files without images...' echo ' latex2html -no_images ./pguser.tex' $L2H -no_images ./pguser.tex >>& makehtml.log echo 'HTML Done.' >>& makehtml.log echo 'HTML Done.' echo 'Copying local *.sty and *.ps files into the HTML directory...' echo ' cp ./*.sty ./*.ps pguser/.' $CP ./*.sty ./*.ps pguser/. echo 'Copy Done.' echo 'Making HTML GIF Images...' echo ' latex2html -images_only ./pguser.tex' $L2H -images_only ./pguser.tex >>& makehtml.log echo 'Images Done.' echo 'Online Document Creation is completed.' echo ' HTML files and images are in ./pguser/...' echo ' See makehtml.log for details and/or error messages.' # end of script: makehtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Mon Aug 21 11:18:06 1995 Subject: This may be the largest document ever successfully translated. Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov I just translated my dissertation using latex2html. The original tex typeset as a 230 page document. The HTML-ized version has over 1430 inline and other images. I think it has 40 nodes. It's a pretty big document. A pointer to the top is in http://rodin.wustl.edu/~kevin A document of this size revealed some weaknesses in latex2html 95.1 It is unfortunate that Nikos is not able to fully support latex2html. If anyone is interested in my experiences I am willing to discuss them on the mailing list or off. Kevin Ruland From latex2html-human@mcs.anl.gov Mon Aug 21 12:48:10 1995 Subject: Re: This may be the largest document ever successfully translated. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-latex2html@mcs.anl.gov On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Kevin Ruland wrote: > > I just translated my dissertation using latex2html. The original tex > typeset as a 230 page document. The HTML-ized version has over 1430 > inline and other images. I think it has 40 nodes. It's a pretty big > document. > > A pointer to the top is in > > http://rodin.wustl.edu/~kevin > > A document of this size revealed some weaknesses in latex2html 95.1 > It is unfortunate that Nikos is not able to fully support latex2html. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nikos is in fact not able to fully support latex2html because he is no longer employed at the the Computer Based Learning Unit of the University of Leeds. (please read: http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/node2.html#notice ) (Message Apr 5 1995) Questions will be answered through the mailing list. If you have some ideas for the future developement of latex2html please feel free to announce them on the mailing list. Grettings from germany, (R)alf Matthies Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, Fachbereich Wirtschaft, Lueneburg