I have a small problem with the table of contents that is not very
significant, but I thought I would share with any interested developers.
In my table of contents, I need to change the width of the page number
entry so I can handle things like long phrases, e.g., "Inside Front
Cover". If I read the TeX documentation correctly a command like
\newcommand\addtotoc[2]{\addtocontents{toc}{%
\protect\settowidth{\tocjunk}{#2}%
\protect\renewcommand{\protect\@pnumwidth}{\tocjunk}%
\protect\contentsline{chapter}{#1}{{\normalfont #2}}%
\protect\renewcommand{\protect\@pnumwidth}{\catpnumwidth}}
}
works just fine in the printed document. If you run latex2html on the
document, everything is fine so long as a command like \htmlref does NOT
appear in the document. If \htmlref or similar command does appear,
latex2html will complain a lot. The problem occurs when the aux file is
read to resolve the reference. In the aux file is the \@writefile{toc}
entry that contains \@pnumwidth. Latex2html has trouble parsing the aux
file due to the @ in the command name. Perl is not happy with
wrap_cmd_@pnumwidth
Solution is to either find a better way to define my addtotoc command or
the solution I used, added a web option to my document class and define
addtotoc one way if option is on and another if it is off.
Thanks for listening. Hope the above is useful for someone.
Thanks to all latex2html developers.
Jim
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Dr. James H.Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nextmail OK)
Department of Mathematics (Mime OK)
Cornell College 319-895-4393(office)
600 First Street West 319-895-6866(home)
Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314-1098
