On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Thompson,Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your comments, Karl. I trust that you and all regarded > my comments as supportive.
Absolutely. Me and Karl have been trying hard to make TeX4ht working properly, write more documentation and make a new release. But often, we both have been severely handicapped due to lack of time, preoccupations at work, etc. If more people volunteer to take up the maintenance of a few packages of their choice (*.4ht), a better working TeX4ht is not a distant dream at all. *.4ht packages need updates or reworking whenever new version of the corresponding mainstream LaTeX package is released at CTAN. Otherwise, TeX4ht will break down for a user who has the updated version of a LaTeX package. > I certainly for one have found that the package can be coerced to > work. > > I wonder if some thing could be done to make packages more > supportable. Could class files and styles be organized in some > very consistent way to allow outsiders to work with them? Eiten followed his own custom literate programming method which is not very difficult to understand. Sources of all the *.4ht packages, documentation, notes and even mails from users are available in tex4ht-4ht.tex. These literate sources are available in the 'lit' directory of the project svn. Those who are interested may kindly grab the file, make necessary modifications, compile the document with 'tex' thrice, you will get all the new versions of *.4ht packages. This is the right way of modifying or maintaining TeX4ht packages. Hope people will volunteer to help. Best regards -- Radhakrishnan
