FYI, what upstream thinks...
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Hi Roland,
On 30/08/2006, at 9:48 PM, Roland Stigge wrote:
Hi,
I'm forwarding a problem of a Debian user. Maybe interesting for
you...
Thanks.
bye,
Roland
OK, thanks.
Resent-From: Sébastien NOBILI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Sébastien NOBILI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 August 2006 6:46:28 PM
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Resent-Cc: Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug#385276: latex2html: 100% CPU and 100% RAM when
compiling an itemize with no item in it
Reply-To: Sébastien NOBILI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: latex2html
Version: 2002-2-1-20050114-5
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Sample file that produces the bug :
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\title{Projets}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This example should crash latex2html
\end{abstract}
\tableofcontents
\section{This list is broken}
\begin{itemize}
\end{itemize}
But LaTeX stops at that point too.
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.19 \end{itemize}
?
By pre-testing with LaTeX before running a LaTeX2HTML job,
the error will be detected.
This has always been the recommended way to use LaTeX2HTML,
and indeed is a *requirement* when there are symbolic links
and/or figure-captions that need to be resolved.
OK, it would be nicer in LaTeX2HTML dealt more sympathetically
with the problem. But it has never been part of its design
to try to catch and work-around all possible LaTeX errors.
\end{document}
Hope this helps,
Ross
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