avinash chopde writes:
> I noticed html.sty in the latex2html distribution uses this
> version of comment.sty:
> % Comment.sty version 2.0, 19 June 1992
>
> But, there is a later one available in my teTeX package, dated:
> % Comment.sty version 3.0, 3 September 1992
>
> So, I deleted the older one from html.sty, added the new one.
> Still things did not work, then I noticed that html.sty
> redefines \excludecomment, using this code:
> % Alternative code by Robin Fairbairns, 22 September 1997
> % revised to cope with % and unnested { }, by Ross Moore, 4 July 1998
>
> I deleted that code, and now everything works!!!!
>
> So, for the next release of latex2html, I recommend using the
> latest version of comment.sty, if at all possible...
the latest version of comment.sty, on ctan, is a terrible bore -- it
reads and writes files all over the place, and so gobbles up pool
space in tex as well as producing all these tedious bits of extra log
output. it appeared shortly after i produced my hack to make
something _i_ needed work -- sometime in latex 1997 or early 1998.
robin
