Hi Michal,
Thanks for your reply. I was using the Cygwin distribution of TeX Live 2024,
which produced the errors I reported and does not seem to be easy to update. I
have now installed TeX Live 2024 for Cygwin directly from TUG, which I presume
is the latest version, and the errors are fixed.
Best wishes,
Francis
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From: Michal Hoftich <michal....@gmail.com>
Sent: 16 January 2025 6:53 PM
To: Francis Wright <f.j.wri...@live.co.uk>
Cc: tex4ht@tug.org <tex4ht@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [tex4ht] \texttt bug caused by \usepackage{times}
Hi Francis,
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM Francis Wright
<f.j.wri...@live.co.uk<mailto:f.j.wri...@live.co.uk>> wrote:
The problem is the fall-back font, which should be monospace, not serif.
'Nimbus Mono L' would probably be fine, but I don't have it installed on my
computer!
This example also illustrates another problem, which is that if I fix the font
problem (say, by editing "bug.css" by hand) then the space after the word
"minimize" is too long, i.e. noticeably longer than the space before the word,
which looks quite ugly. I presume this is because the </span> follows the space
after the word, whereas is should precede it, as in the source file.
I was actually trying to track down a slightly different bug affecting the use
of \texttt in a large document. For that document, TeX4ht generates invalid CSS
such as
.pcrr8t-x-x-109{font-weight: monospaced;}
Which TeX distribution do you use? I get this CSS with TeX Live 2024:
.pcrr7t-{ font-family: 'Nimbus Mono L', monospace,monospace;}
I know that I fixed all monospaced fonts a few years ago, because I found that
we need to use "monospace,monospace" in the font family to get the correct font
size. Just a single monospace produces text which is smaller than the
surrounding non-monospaced text.
Regarding space, I think it is marked in monospaced because the markup in this
case is produced by post-processing of the DVI file, so it changes the font
style only after it finds next characters in another font.
What you can do? It is best to use explicit configuration to \Configure{texttt}
to produce HTML markup. You can try the "fonts" option:
$ make4ht -m draft sample.tex "fonts"
But it is possible that your distro doesn't know this option either. You can
then configure it directly in a config file:
\Preamble{xhtml}
\Configure{texttt}{\HCode{<code>}\NoFonts}{\EndNoFonts\HCode{</code>}}
\Css{code{font-family:monospace,monospace;}}
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble
Best regards,
Michal
