Dear Kapil, Thank you for the prompt answer. I am not an expert in type-setting however I have noticed two things which makes the conversion tex4ht does problematic. First, when you open the html file using a browser, the ff,fi,... combination look different than the rest of the text (blurred). Second, the funny conversion makes it hard to apply post-processors, such as spell checkers and syntax checkers to the html file. you are probably right that by creating an htf file this can be done. However, I would expect that this would be the default behavior, hence I do not think that the user should be bothered with doing that. Nevertheless, I might be wrong ...
thank you once again, Rani On 5/4/05, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Ran Gilad-Bachrach, > > Thanks for your report. > > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:58:36PM +0300, Ran Gilad-Bachrach wrote: > > tex4ht makes use of unicode letter when this is not needed. This happens > > when > > the latex code contains the sequence "ff" or "fi" and maybe other > > sequences. For > > example, here is a latex code and the html code generated by ht4tex and > > htlatex. Note how > > the sequence "fi" was translated to fi > > Could you please tell me why you think this is a bug? Please keep the > following in mind. > > 1. TeX4HT tries as much as possible to be *like* TeX except that it > outputs hypertext. > > 2. TeX uses ligatures whenever it encounters ff, fi, fl and so on. > > 3. It *is* possible for you to define an alternate mechanism to avoid > ligatures---create your own htf files which skip the ligatures. > > Thanks and best regards, > > Kapil. > -- > >
