I have installed latex2html, following the instructions in the
online manual as best I could. When I tried to test the installation by
running the manual.tex file through l2h, it seemed to be in some sort
of infinite loop; it ran for 20 hours before I killed it, and
produced no output except for a huge volume of messages dumped in the
xterm window where it was running.
I decided to try running a small test file (test.tex):
=====================================================================
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{\bf Binomial Distribution}
The number of successes in $n$ independent trials
each with probability $p$ of success, and probability of failure
$q \ = \ (1-p)$. The Binomial distribution has probability
density function
$$ f(k \mid n,p) = {n \choose k} p^k q^{n-k}$$
for $k \ = 0, 1, 2, \ldots, n$.
If $X \sim Bin(n,p)$ then
$${\bf E}X = np$$
and
$${\bf Var}X = npq$$
\end{document}
=====================================================================
here is the screen output from l2h:
$ latex2html test.tex
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 98.1 release (February 19th, 1998)
originally by Nikos Drakos,
Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
Revised and extended by:
Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan and others
...producing markup for HTML version 3.2
Loading /disk/jones/latex2html/versions/html3_2.pl
*** processing declarations ***
OPENING /disk/jones/latex2html/tests/test.tex
Cannot create directory test: File exists
Reusing directory test:
*** `texexpand' done ***
*** database open ***
Loading /disk/jones/latex2html/styles/texdefs.perl...
Loading /disk/jones/latex2html/styles/article.perl
Reading ...
++
@@@@@
Translating ...
0/1:top of test: for test.html
*** translating preamble ***
*** preamble done ***
;,,,,,,,,;
1/1:sectionstar:"sectionstar" for node1.html
;;
Doing section links .....
Done.
====================================================================
$ cd test
$ ls
IMG_PARAMS.dir* images.tex img5.gif node1.html
IMG_PARAMS.pag* img1.gif img6.gif test.css
images.aux img2.gif index.html test.html
images.log img3.gif l2h2596/
images.pl img4.gif labels.pl
===================================================================
The resulting html files have navigation panels, but are
otherwise empty:
$ more node1.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1 release (February 19th, 1998)
originally by Nikos Drakos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), CBLU, University of Leeds
* revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan
* with significant contributions from:
Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others -->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>No Title</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="No Title">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="test">
<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="test.css">
<LINK REL="previous" HREF="test.html">
<LINK REL="up" HREF="test.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY >
<!--Navigation Panel-->
<IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next"
SRC="http://www.reed.edu/~jones/icons//next_motif_gr.gif">
<A NAME="tex2html8"
HREF="test.html">
<IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up"
SRC="http://www.reed.edu/~jones/icons//up_motif.gif"></A>
<A NAME="tex2html4"
HREF="test.html">
<IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous"
SRC="http://www.reed.edu/~jones/icons//previous_motif.gif"></A>
<BR>
<B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html9"
HREF="test.html">No Title</A>
<B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5"
HREF="test.html">No Title</A>
<BR>
<BR>
<!--End of Navigation Panel-->
<BR><HR>
<ADDRESS>
<I>Albyn Jones</I>
<BR><I>1999-02-11</I>
</ADDRESS>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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any suggestions?
thanks
albyn
