On 23/04/2004, at 10:09 PM, Erling D. Andersen wrote:
Hi I define
set TEXINPUTS=c:\something..
and it seems latex2html does not feed it properly to texpand.
No; it's not supposed to. You are expected to supply a Perl definition to $TEXINPUTS within a local .latex2html-init file.
If you change the code from
L2hos->syswait("$TEXEXPAND $dbg -auto_exclude $unseg" . "-save_styles $DESTDIR$dd$TMP_${dd}styles " . ($TEXINPUTS ? "-texinputs $TEXINPUTS " : '' ) . (($VERBOSITY >2) ? "-verbose " : '' ) . "-out $DESTDIR$dd$TMP_$dd$FILE " . "$texfilepath$dd$FILE.$EXT") && die " texexpand failed: $!\n";
to
$MYTEXINPUTS = $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'};
Why not set $TEXINPUTS = ".:$ENV{'TEXINPUTS'}"; ...
L2hos->syswait("$TEXEXPAND $dbg -auto_exclude $unseg" . "-save_styles $DESTDIR$dd$TMP_${dd}styles " . ($MYTEXINPUTS ? "-texinputs $MYTEXINPUTS " : '' )
... and not edit this latter line at all ?
. (($VERBOSITY >2) ? "-verbose " : '' ) . "-out $DESTDIR$dd$TMP_$dd$FILE " . "$texfilepath$dd$FILE.$EXT") && die " texexpand failed: $!\n";
then things works very well.
I think the problem is
$TEXINPUTS
only includes the current directory.
Is my bug report correct or have I misunderstood something?
Yes, you have misunderstood that LaTeX2HTML is *not* based upon a TeX engine, but implements the translation of LaTeX coding in a quite different way. Much TeX coding cannot be translated sensibly by LaTeX2HTML. (more explanations below.)
If you want to verify the bug then TEXINPUTS to something. Do
latex2html -debug ...
Verify that texpand does not get the right -texinputs.
What you are missing is that the environment variable TEXINPUTS is usually used for TeX \input files and packages, most of which cannot be interpreted by LaTeX2HTML, since they are designed for layout of material on a static paper page. Most packages and Plain-TeX \input files will just cause errors in the high-level LaTeX-based processing performed by LaTeX2HTML.
Furthermore, since TEXINPUTS is frequently set to include the *whole* texmf/ tree, including documentation files, it is actually quite easy to get completely unrelated files \input into a LaTeX2HTML job, causing all sorts of mayhem --- and the user will be quite unaware of why material from such a file has managed to get into his/her HTML pages. (Consider how many files named test.tex, example.tex, ex1.tex, letter.tex, etc. are located within your texmf/ tree. These are then candidates to be included accidentally.)
In short, if you have a sensibly-defined TEXINPUTS environment variable, necessary for a particular LaTeX job, then you should be prepared to define a similar $TEXINPUTS Perl variable for that job. (There are too many TeX installations out there with badly-defined TEXINPUTS env variables to have $TEXINPUTS inherited from it by default.)
Erling
PS. I would prefer a LOT that
latex2html -texinputs whateverpath .....
was possible.
It's fine for experienced users of LaTeX2HTML to set this up for themselves, but it is *not* fine for this to be the default behaviour imposed by simply installing the software.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
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