>
> Hi,
> I just used latex2html (version 98.1 release) extensively, and
> have some suggestions:
> - latex2html should generally reject calling dvips when the path leading
> to a file contains a "." -- you reject when $TMP contains a "." -- why
> not generally reject it and display an error message (it had cost me
> 2 hours or so to find out what when wrong with dvips -- should have
> looked immediately in the FAQ ;-)
OK, I've done this now.
However later versions of dvips may fix the bug --- perhaps it's done
already, I don't know.
So I've added a variable $DVIPS_SAFE which can be set when it's OK to
have a dot in the name.
> - when TMP is set, then I frequently get errors like:
> pstoimg: Cannot find file /home/obachman/tmp/l2h1445/image033.ps: No such file or
>directory
> Error while converting image: No such file or directory
> while dvips is running. Whereas everything works fine, if TMP is
> not set.
Sorry, no idea why this might happen.
Perhaps the TMP is on a different disk that is nearly full ?
> - why arn't the temporary dirs l2h<process-id> deleted, after
> latex2html is finished?
They are supposed to be, but Perl behaves differently on different
platforms, concerning the unlink command.
I have no such trouble on my platform, so haven't been able to trace
this problem. Uli Wortmann says it is connected with forked processes.
Maybe soon we will be able to fix this.
> - The generation of the bibliography seems totally broken only garbage
> is generated there. However, I have a 98.1 delta version still on my
> disk, and this generates the bibliographies correctly.
Please supply an example. Then I'll look at this.
> BTW -- I have hacked texi2html to use latex2html on
> '@tex ... @end tex'
Good idea. I don't use it myself, but we can include it
with the LaTeX2HTML distribution.
> tags -- drop me a line, in case anyone is interested. Also, does
> anyone know a better way of converting texi to html, then the one
> based on texi2html?
>
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
