Re: latex2html: Monitor resolution and pixel image size

[Ross Moore]

Hi Uli,

>
>I just designed a nice logo for our group to appear on every
>page. However I realized that a page which looks nicely balanced
>(wrt. text vs. logo-size) on my monitor (at 1280*1024), looks rather
>odd on a low-res monitor (say 800*600). Are ther means within the html
>definition to take care of this?

No can do.
With bitmapped images a pixel is a pixel, no matter what the resolution.
So 100 pixels at low-res appears much larger than 100 at hi-res.
It is up to browsers or operating-system software to do anything different.

This is a real killer for mathematics using images.
It makes it impossible to produce HTML pages that will have a consistent
presentation on all platforms.

The other real killer for mathematics is MSIEs stupid implementation of
 <IMG ALIGN="MIDDLE" ...


>And on a sidematter, How do I escape the tilde (~) character in the
>.latex2html file. NOTE: I do not mean within a tex-file
>(i.e. \~{}). The problem is that in order to modify the menu-bar, I
>have to reference the logo-file as http://somename/~/somedir inside
>the l2h init files.
>I tried a couple of things (including the usual suspects), but found
>no way to preserve the tilde character.

Use  ';SPMtilde;'
This character string remains static through all translation processes,
--- except if it ends within the LaTeX code for an image.
It's converted to '~' after all LaTeX-like processing has been completed.

Similarly use  ';SPMdollar;'  for  '$'  and   ';$PMpct;'  for  '%'

Other entities can be preserved this way too:
        ';SPMamp;'      --->  &amp;
        ';SPMlt;'       --->  &lt;
        ';SPMgt;'       --->  &gt;
        ';SPMnbsp;'     --->  &nbsp;
        ';SPMquot;'     --->  &quot;
        ';SPMalpha;'    --->  &alpha;
        ';SPMeuro;      --->  &euro;
 etc.
You can construct your own entity names this way,
 --- if you have a DTD that a browser can access to find out what they mean.
Otherwise stick to the ones defined for HTML by the W3C .
 ;-)



Cheers,

        Ross Moore


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