Oops, sorry, never mind; I got it to work using: `git clone https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht.git`.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Alexandre Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Michal, > > Thank you very much for this solution! It sounds like exactly what I need. > > I am eager to try it, but unfortunately when I tried to install helpers4ht > (on Mac OS 10.11.5) by following your instructions ( > https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht), the command `git clone > [email protected]:michal-h21/helpers4ht.git` returned an error (without > asking me for a password): > > Cloning into 'helpers4ht'... > > Permission denied (publickey). > > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > Do you happen to know what I'm doing wrong? (Sorry for such a basic > question.) > > Best, > Alex > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Michal Hoftich <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Alex, >> >> > >> > I would like to produce an ODT document from my XeLaTeX document (using >> MacTeX >> > 2016). >> > >> > The necessary code to include Unicode characters (including in Greek >> and Arabic >> > script) was kindly provided by CV Radhakrishnan and Michal Hoftich back >> in >> > February 2013. But I am running into a new difficulty: converting a >> document >> > that defines LaTeX macros that have Unicode characters in them. (The >> reason I >> > want this is to enable me to use macros within a Right-to-Left script, >> Arabic. >> > Mixing up RTL and LTR scripts in a text editor, especially when >> punctuation -- >> > or braces {} -- is involved, tends to make the source file unreadable.) >> > >> > I am attaching a MWE in two files: >> > >> > 1. `main.tex`: standalone file that includes macro definition >> > 2. `utf2ent.pl`: the Perl script devised by CVR to keep Unicode in the >> new >> > document >> > >> > The script I run to compile this is: >> > >> > # CVR's script to preserve Unicode characters >> > perl utf2ent.pl main.tex > main-ent.tex >> > >> > # tex4ht >> > mk4ht oolatex main-ent "xhtml, charset=utf-8" -utf8 >> > >> >> There are two problems: >> >> 1. Macros with Unicode names are supported only by Unicode engines, ie. >> XeTeX and LuaTeX. mk4ht oolatex is 8-bit pdflatex, so it can't really >> support it. >> >> 2. utf2ent converts all Unicode characters to entities, including your >> command, so you end with something like '\\entity{1589}' in your code. >> >> 3. $\langle$ and $\rangle$ produces wrong mathml code, see >> >> https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?278 >> >> ODT format uses mathml, so it may produce invalid file. >> >> Now what can be done: >> >> You need to use Unicode engine. That means LuaTeX at the moment, as >> XeTeX support is broken in tex4ht at the moment. Fortunately, you can >> use XeTeX to produce the PDF and only modify some macros for tex4ht. >> >> With LuaTeX, it is possible to keep Unicode characters without need to >> call external scripts to convert them to Unicode entities. See >> >> http://michal-h21.github.io/samples/helpers4ht/fontspec.html >> >> for more details. I've modified your file to use alternative4ht and to >> fix the problem with angles. Two new macros are introduced: extlangle >> and extrangle, which are redefined in the config file to use XML >> entities directly, instead of math mode. >> >> I've also found a problem that the angles are wrongly swapped in the ODT >> and HTML, probably it is because they use the BIDI algorithm, so they >> don't expect that they are swapped by the user already (you use >> \rangle#1\langle). I've redefined the commands for angles in the config >> file to use the opposite side than should be used according to the name, >> so they are rendered correctly. >> >> The last problem is that mk4ht doesn't support LuaTeX, so you need to >> use different way to compile the document. You can use: >> >> make4ht -ulm draft -c hello.cfg main.tex "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! >> -cmozhtf -utf8" " -cooxtpipes -coo" >> >> (it might be best to save it as a script, as it is not really human >> friendly command call :) >> >> Modified main.tex and hello.cfg are attached. main.tex can be compiled >> with xelatex to PDF, all needed changes for tex4ht are in the hello.cfg >> file. >> >> Best regards, >> Michal >> > >
