Hi Ben
>
>first a silly question, where are the patches located ?
No, it's not a silly question.
There will be a new version v98.1p5 available at the
Darmstadt archive, when I've fixed a couple more little things.
There are not separate patches for small bug-fixes,
like the 1-liners for the things you found to be wrong.
>it seems as if latex2html processes the content of an index command
>very differently then latex, instead of treating them verbatim
>they are normally processed so that for instance a % sign in
>an index leads to ignoring the rest of the input line ?
Yes, that's right.
LaTeX2HTML has no concept of category-code, so the meaning of a symbol
cannot change according to context in the same way that it can do in TeX.
> what happens with an index\index{%} if it contains
> special characters like \%, \$, etc.
> \LaTeX\ handles them correctly, latex2html doesn't.
To be honest, I'm really surprised that \index{%} works in LaTeX.
Yet indeed it does make it into the .idx file, ...
...BUT...
...it is treated as a comment when read back in from the .ind file.
So it is effectively a comment all along, and your code is in error.
Instead you should use \index{\%} .
In LaTeX2HTML the effect of the error is prominent,
>Cannot find matching bracket for 5.;.
>
>*** no brace for \index , before:
>\documentclass{book}
>*** using "
>\documentclass" as the argument instead; is this correct? ***
>
>..
>
>*** no brace for \index , before:
>{<tex2html_comment_mark>
>*** using "<" as the argument instead; is this correct? ***
>
...whereas you don't see the error with LaTeX
until you look at the Index page itself.
So I think that LaTeX2HTML definitely has it right here.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
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