Bug#307647: tex4ht: unicode used when it is not needed

[Ran Gilad-Bachrach]

Dear Professor Gurari,

  thank you very much. It works like charm. 

Rani

On 5/8/05, Eitan Gurari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I modified the bugfixes distribution to provide reduced usage of
> unicode values in iso-8859-1 output. The requests are to be made
> through commands similar to
> 
>        htlatex file "" "iso8859/1/charset/less/!"
> 
> or by modifying the charset paths in tex4ht.env accordingly.
> Currently the only cases addressed are the ligatures 'ff' and 'fi' and
> a few non-ligature values.  Additional cases will be addressed in
> response to bug reports.
> 
> -eitan
> 
>  > 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 &#xFB01;
>