According to Harriet B Borton:
> >From the preamble of my latex file, I'm \inputing a file of my own macros.
> Many of my definitions work fine, but I'm trying to modify the section
> headings and I can't get \renewcommand{\section}[1]{.... #1..} to work.
> Latex2html does not see the parameter and all the sections disappear from the
> html output!
No doubt, Ross will augment this answer. I have found that you
can expect LaTeX2HTML to provide good translations if you don't
mess with commands that define the `logical' structure of the
document. To get the title of your document use:
\title{...}
\author{...}
\date{...}
\maketitle
... to get an abstract use
\begin{abstract}
...
\end{abstract}
... to get the various sectioning commands use
\chapter{...}
\section{...}
\subsection{...}
etc. Redefining macros that provide a document's logical
structure in LaTeX should be done in a document class ...
and in general you should expect such redefinitions to be
ignored by LaTeX2HTML. For one thing, the `explicit' style
that you try to achieve on your web browser might be a totally
broken mess on another browser.
One document that I translated for a friend wanted the headings
to appear in smallcaps. The definition
\newcommand{\sec}[1]{\section{{\sc #1}}}
worked to achieve the aim ... but you see \section is *not*
redefined here ... LaTeX2HTML will expand \sec to get the
logical structural entity \section, with which it knows to
generate a table of contents entry etc. etc.
In general then redefining commands that define logical
structure of a document should be avoided ... but if you
*must* impose some explicit style do it in such a way that
`goes with the flow' (as per the above example).
I hope that helps.
Regards,
Greg Gamble
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