Dear Friends, A recent item at arxiv.org -- 1108.5305 -- fails to run through tex4ht targeted for xhtml+mathml, i.e., mk4ht xhmlatex, because it has nearly 40 instances in its source of unbalanced parentheses.
Since the source will run correctly through pdflatex, there is a sense in which it may be considered correct as LaTeX. On the other hand, the unbalanced parentheses represent mathematical errors (typographical in nature), and I think it unreasonable to view it as correct LaTeX and I see no reason to find fault with tex4ht on this account. Nonetheless it is a dilemma in the context of translation from LaTeX to xhtml+mathml or, for that matter, html5+mathml, if the source is understood as correct LaTeX. This document presents a good case-in-point to support my idea of formalizing LaTeX profiles, https://www.tug.org/members/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98hammond.pdf or http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/presentations/Tug2010/, where such author errors can, for suitable profiles, be trapped on the author's platform. -- Bill
