(I'm a relative novice begging for help from the knowledgeable.
I hope this isn't too stupid a question -- I have read the manuals
and searched the archive.)

I just installed the current version (98.1p1) of latex2html on my
Linux system, but I can't get it to work on any file that has any math
in it.  It gets as far as creating the "images.tex" file, but it fails
when it tries to run latex on it.

To be specific, here are the last few lines of the output when
I run "latex2html -verbosity 8 test.tex" (test.tex is a very short
LaTeX file that creates one simple displayed equation):

  *** Translations done ***
  Writing image file ...
  
   *** making images ***
  /usr/lib/teTeX/bin/latex ./images.tex
  
  
  /usr/lib/teTeX/bin/latex ./images.tex
  
   *** finished child process: #17927
  Cannot find logfile ./images.log at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 3372.

At this point, images.tex exists in subdirectory test/ (where it
should be, right?), but there is no images.dvi or images.log.  I
interpret that to mean that the latex command issued above failed for
some reason.  But here's the strange thing: If I run latex by hand on
that file (either "cd test ; latex images.tex" or "cd test ;
/usr/lib/teTeX/bin/latex ./images.tex"), it works fine, generating
both images.dvi and images.log as it should.

I know I must have misconfigured something, but I'm having trouble
guessing what.  I can't think of anything that would make 
the above command (/usr/lib/teTeX/bin/latex ./images.tex) fail
when latex2html issues it, although everything works fine when
I issue the same command by hand.

If I've left off any crucial information, please let me know.

Thanks!

Ted Bunn

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