Hi John I share some of your frustration but we still use latex2html quite a lot.
If nobody else want to take over the latex2html.org then my company is willing to pay registration fees as you have been doing. Erling At 07:28 PM 4/4/2005, John A. Turner wrote: >in late June of 2000, when I was actually using latex2html, I registered the >domain >name latex2html.org and set it up to redirect to: > > http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/ > >however, due to continued frustrations with both latex2html itself, the closed >nature of its development, and infrequent updates, I long ago switched to >hyperref >and pdflatex for documentation > >let me elaborate for a minute on the above - although latex2html is often >"pretty >good", basically I tired of fighting with it - if you search the archives >you'll >find numerous issues I encountered prior to 2001 or so - although Ross always >responded very quickly with help, I was always frustrated that my calls for an >open CVS repository - just for checkouts, mind you - were consistently ignored: > > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2000-July/000697.html > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2001-March/001065.html > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2001-October/001395.html > >the need for CVS access could be avoided by frequent releases, but as I'm sure >everyone is aware, this doesn't happen, as a quick glance at the release site >confirms: > > http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/current/ > >anyway, although this sounds rather bitter, I don't mean to attack or change >anything at this point - I've moved on - and I do appreciate the efforts of all >who were involved in latex2html development (esp. Ross) > >however, there's the matter of the domain name - basically, although I've been >renewing it each year, at this point I'd like to transfer it to someone more >closely >involved in the effort (or at least someone who uses it and would like to >support >the effort) > >it expires on 6/29/2005 - please contact me directly if you're interested in >having >it transfered to you before then so you can renew it > >-- > >-John A. Turner > Group Leader, Continuum Dynamics Group (CCS-2) > Computer & Computational Sciences (CCS) Division > Los Alamos National Laboratory > (505) 667-4297 > > > >_______________________________________________ >latex2html mailing list >[email protected] >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html ************************************************************************* MOSEK ApS C/O Symbion Science Park Fruebjergvej 3, Boks 16 DK-2100 Copenhagen O Denmark Phone (work): +45 3917 9907 Mobile-phone: +45 2362 9520 Fax: +45 3917 9823 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://erling.andersen.name http://www.mosek.com/homepages/e.d.andersen/ ************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ latex2html mailing list [email protected] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html
