I have started a weblog called ``Samsara's Blog'' at
<http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/blog/> and I am using LaTeX2HTML
(along with EMACS and vim) to create the blog on my linux
box.
Being old and not a GU I detest GUI's. I already used
LaTeX2HTML for other purposes, so, when I started my
blog it was the obvious software for me to use.
I am very happy with the result, but I do want to report on
one problem that I had to overcome, for which I did not find
the documentation available too helpful.
Originally each section of the blog was placed in a file
with a name like "node1.html", "note2.html", etc. And each
time I added a section all those file names changed, which
made it impossible for one to create a permanent link to
a given section in the blog.
It turned out that the way to solve that problem was simply
to add the option " -long_titles 8" when I invoked latex2html
from the command line. After that each of files ended up
with the name of the section followed by the ".html" extension.
But that caused a new problem: LaTeX2HTML no longer generated
an "index.html" file, but rather only a file with the name
of the title of the blog, which I set in the command
line with the option "-t samsara_blog".
Here is the way the command-line looks:
latex2html -t samsara_blog -long_titles 8 blogmaster.tex
The solution to that problem was to create a file called
".latex2html-init" in the directory from which I called
the latex2html program. That file contains the following settings:
$NO_AUTO_Link = 1;
$LINKNAME = '"index$EXTN"';
$LINKPOINT = '"samsara_blog$EXTN"';
#$USE_CURLY_QUOTES = 0;
I just wish that the documentation had been clearer and I hope
that this will be of help to someone in the future.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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