On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:35:17PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Am Samstag, den 19.12.2009, 12:22 +0100 schrieb Peter Kümmel: > > The doc to htlatex says: > > "In some platforms the double quotes should be replaced with single > > right-quotes, and in some cases they might be omitted." > > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/ > > > > This helps not much.
On the contrary, it says all. You simply have to know the quoting rules on a given platform. > Double quotes on Linux does not work: > lyx_tmpbuf0$ htlatex "UserGuide.tex" "html,word" "symbol/!" "-cvalidae" > bash: !": event not found This is to be expected, as ! doesn't lose its special meaning inside double quotes. Either you enclose it in single-quotes or escape it by a backslash. > This is OK > lyx_tmpbuf0$ htlatex "UserGuide.tex" "html,word" symbol/! "-cvalidae" This only works because the ! is immediately followed by a space, which is one of the characters (the others are: tab, newline, carriage return, and = ) that inhibit history expansion, so ! behaves as a normal character even if it is unquoted. > also > lyx_tmpbuf0$ htlatex "UserGuide.tex" "html,word" 'symbol/!' "-cvalidae" Here, the single-quotes preserve the literal meaning of the ! character. > lyx_tmpbuf0$ htlatex "UserGuide.tex" html,word symbol/! -cvalidae Good again, as ! is followed by a space. > lyx_tmpbuf0$ htlatex "UserGuide.tex" html,word "symbol/\!" -cvalidae Here the ! is escaped so it loses its special meaning. However, this line is not good, as the escaped ! is inside double-quotes, and in this case the backslash will not be removed, i.e., htlatex will literally see symbol/\! which is not what is wanted. > Some htlatex experts here? This has nothing to do with htlatex. Use "man bash" and search for HISTORY EXPANSION for the gory details about the meaning of ! for the shell. -- Enrico
