Karl: What is the functional specification for tex4ht? Can it survive in its current form?
This is a good example of one concern that I have (and probably you as well): the long-term viability of a system built on custom non-standard specifications by hundreds if not thousands of persons each doing boutique independent installation and development is simply not clear. Will LaTeX survive? LaTeX3 is going to possibly fix this, but I am totally confused by it (since I haven't really looked into it, it might be less confusing if I did). ________________________________________ From: tex4ht [[email protected]] on behalf of Karl Berry [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tex4ht] TeX4ht upgrading: doesn't work here are the instructions to upgrade tex4ht (http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn-upgrade.html). Which Eitan wrote years ago, and it's not been touched since. I guess I better eradicate that page. Advising people to replace anything in /usr/bin is a terrible idea. I have no specific idea why it fails, but I am not at all surprised it does, since it's replacing the distro-built binaries with others. In any event, tex4ht has not seen a full update since Eitan died. (I should probably delete that .zip file too.) CVR and I are still hoping that will happen at some point, but there is no ETA. Meanwhile, some of the *.4ht, etc., files have been updated by CVR and you can get the current versions from TeX Live. There have been no other substantive changes. Best, karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
