>
> RM> For a chapter with footnotes, have a look at:
> RM>
> RM> http://www-math.mpce.mq.edu.au/~ross/latex/netscape/manual/Snode1.html
>
> Wow. I love it!
>
> Unfortunately, when I try to process a simple doc with 98.2b6 (after
> adding the init code to latex2html and setting $FRAMES=1, of course),
> it bombs with:
Yep.
This module hasn't been updated since 1996, or early 1997.
As you can imagine, it must override many of the subroutines
in latex2html related to formatting the input source into pages.
These have changed significantly since then, but frames.perl has not.
Furthermore, at the time frames.perl was written, it was adapted
to what was then available with Netscape only.
Now we have HTML 4.0, which is an amalgam of syntax valid for
both NS and MSIE. Just how different is this syntax, I don't know.
So updating frames.perl could be quite a big job,
or it could be trivially easy, by just copying sections of code
from latex2html into frames.perl .
That is the mechanical part.
For the *dynamical* part, we need a whole new LaTeX syntax
to allow users to specify their own framesets.
Martin Wilck had some ideas here, but couldn't pursue them,
due to a thing called a PhD Thesis.
Also, W3C were deprecating the use of frames, due to the
target-syntax that NS was using; so no further work was done on this.
(I was too busy with implementing Mathematics, AMS packages, etc.)
>
> Should I pkg up the small test or wait and try again once b7 is
> available?
>
Whatever. If you send an example then there is a greater chance
of me tackling the job. Otherwise Bruce Miller may be interested.
;-)
Cheers,
Ross Moore
