Hello, everyone!
I am trying to convert some .tex files to .html files (I am hoping to
automate this process over the next view days as part of a pipeline),
and I ran into a couple of problems doing so. The documentation I found
assumes that these problems don't happen, and everything I found so far
wasn't able to solve these problems, so I decided I'd just ask for it
here directly.
The tex file I am trying to convert can be found here
(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phseiff/gender-render/main/docs/spec.tex),
and the command I am using to convert it is `htlatex spec`.
* Running `pdflatex spec.tex` works fine, so the files validity as a
LaTeX file is probably not the issue, but `htlatex` chokes on it
several times (fails with a `?` and reruns again once I enter `q`
and press enter, for a total of 3 runs).
* The process ends with `System call: rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
-sDEVICE=pngalpha -r300 -sOutputFile='images/title-black-.png'
images/title-black.pdf`. This is apparently because I embed a
.pdf-file into the tex file via `\includegraphics`, which htlatex
attempts to convert to png using a tool called rungs, but googling
`rungs` yields no results except some posts of people who ran into
the same problem I did, like this
(https://github.com/michal-h21/tex4ebook/issues/50), but neither am
I using xelatex, nor did the fix suggested in this thread fix my
problem. Could it be I am using an old version of htlatex, or that
it doesn't work as intended on Ubuntu 18.04? I can probably work
around this issue, though, by extracting the error message and
running imagemagick on the image in question.
* The resulting html file does not have any table of contents. The tex
file uses the `\tableofcontents`-command, which, according to the
documentation I found, is supported by htlatex, yet nothing but the
"Content"-heading is created for it. I found some posts on
tex.stackexchange.com suggesting that it is because I used
`\setcounter{tocdepth}` and/or `\usepackage{titlesec}`, but nothing
more specific than that or how to fix it.
* `\multicolumn`s don't appear to work, and their content appears on
top of the tale rather than within it. This is the same issue
documented here
(https://comp.text.tex.narkive.com/QYwBaL9w/tex4ht-multicolumn), but
compiling multiple times like the post suggests doesn't fix it for me.
I would be very happy if you could help me out with at least some of
these problems, or tell me how to solve them on my own.
