Package: bibtex2html Version: 1.99-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
I wish bibtex2html could translate math characters that have accents. In my .bib collection, I have a few abstracts with math characters that have accents. One such document is at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04874v1.pdf. Here's a sample .bib entry for it, with an abridged abstract: @Misc{ lee-sidford-wong15cutting, author = {Yin Tat Lee and Aaron Sidford and Sam Chiu-wai Wong}, title = {A Faster Cutting Plane Method and its Implications for Combinatorial and Convex Optimization}, eprinttype = {arxiv}, eprint = {1508.04874v1}, url = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04874v1.pdf}, month = aug, year = 2015, abstract = {We obtain a running time of $\tilde O ( n ( n^2 + m^\omega + S ))$, improving upon the previous best of $\tilde O ( n ( n^\omega + m^\omega + S ))$ for the regime $S$ is small.}, pdf = {lee-sidford-wong15cutting.pdf} } Unicode can add bars and such over characters, using characters with combining class "above". In TeX, the accent macro precedes the base character, while the Unicode combining character must follow the base character. I think these TeX macro definitions should accomplish the exchange: \def\overleftarrow#1{#1⃖} % over left arrow U+20d6 \def\overrightarrow#1{#1⃗} % over right arrow U+20d7 \def\bar#1{#1̅} % overbar accent U+0305 \def\tilde#1{#1̃} % tilde accent U+0303 However none of these actually work because ``bibtex2html does not handle macros arguments; arguments are simply discarded.'' I think the translations could be done with ocaml, but I'm not even sure how to spell that. Please ask the upstream author(s) to consider implementing translations for accented math characters. - Jim Van Zandt -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages bibtex2html depends on: ii ocaml-base-nox [ocaml-base-nox-4.05.0] 4.05.0-11 ii perl 5.28.1-4 ii texlive-base 2018.20190131-1 bibtex2html recommends no packages. Versions of packages bibtex2html suggests: pn hlins <none> -- no debconf information
