Package: latex2html
Version: 2002-2-1-20050114-5

(This bug seems to exist since 2004 (but not in Debian), though I could not
find a bug report anywhere. I'm sorry if this bug is already documented
somewhere.)

This bug showed up on the development server of fli4l
<(http://www.fli4l.de/> since Debian ETCH was installed.

In some of our LATEX documents we use a math construction a.o. to obtain
proper "<" and ">"'s: $<$text$>$. (That should show as <text> in the
browsed html.)

The output shown in the browser however since the update mentioned above is:

<mathend000#text>mathend000#

(If you look for "mathend000#" in Google, you see many WWW-pages that are
contaminated with this bug.)

We found a patch for the bug at:
<http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2004-February/002688.html>.
This patch improves the situation in such a way that the text "mathend000#"
is no longer there, but it shows a space instead (< text> ). The patch
therefore is not sufficient.

Here the different html codes generated from Latex's
{\em $<$config verzeichnis$>/$\_fli4l.txt}:

1. we used to have:
<EM><SPAN CLASS="MATH">&lt;</SPAN>config verzeichnis<SPAN
CLASS="MATH">&gt; /</SPAN>_fli4l.txt</EM>

2. with the present version we get:
<EM><SPAN CLASS="MATH">&lt;</SPAN>
<tex2html_verbatim_mark>mathend000#config verzeichnis<SPAN
CLASS="MATH">&gt; /</SPAN>
<tex2html_verbatim_mark>mathend000#_fli4l.txt</EM>

3. with the present version patched with the patch, mentioned above. we
obtain:
<EM><SPAN CLASS="MATH">&lt;</SPAN>
<!-- MATHEND
 
 -->
config verzeichnis<SPAN CLASS="MATH">&gt; /</SPAN>
<!-- MATHEND
 
 -->
_fli4l.txt</EM>


There is definitely something wrong and the published patch is not
sufficient. Unfortunately we could not find a proper solution ourselves
other than going back to an older version.

Kind regards,
Arwin.



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