Hello again. I want to explain one thing. That is although I didn't use
BibTeX during the ten years before this one, I am not sure if I ever used it
myself; it is possible someone might have shown me something about it or
that I might have used it in the early 1990s or 1980s; but it is also
possible that I didn't ever use BibTeX myself before this year.---I'm not
sure.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:41 AM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: In my LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html file the references don't look
good. What am I missing?
Hello again. I found a good hint for what one of my troubles could have
been from Erwin at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/d2a363b56272c543/4553d7b2e2ef9db9?show_docid=4553d7b2e2ef9db9.
He found that the bibliographic style file plainnat.bst of Natbib could be
used to avoid a problem between Natbib and apsrev4-1.bst. I substituted
plainnat.bst for apsrev4-1.bst in my .tex file using the package natbib
and gratefully obtained a not perfect, but reasonably good-looking set of
references in the .html (HyperText Markup Language) file produced by
LaTeX2HTML. The custom \onlinecite{..} command did not work in the .html
file, though, to put automatically numbered reference numbers on the base
line of text. My "workaround" solution for that was to change textual
references like, as a not necessarily real example for discussion
purposes, "according to reference \onlinecite{RAT92}" to "according to the
superscripted reference$^{\cite{RAT92}}$". That is in my .tex document I
changed all of the \onlinecite{...} commands, intended for reference
numbers to be on the base line of text, to instead superscripted numerical
citings of references.
Not having written any of the codes for the software packages I have been
discussing here, I give my thinking, reasoning, and guessing to attempt to
explain the results I mentioned in the above, first paragraph. First
compare the dates of the software I used:
LaTeX2HTML 1.71 (year 2008, I think)
Within it the file /usr/share/latex2html/styles/natbib.perl is internally
dated with 2001/11/08 or 2001/11/8, which I guess might mean November 8,
2001 (Here in the United States such a date could be numerically written
as, for example 11/8/01 or maybe 11/8/2001.).
LaTeX 2e (September 24, 2009)
The file natbib.sty of Natbib 8.31a (November 7, 2009)
The bibliographic style file apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1 (for February 12,
2010 Physical Review). In REVTeX 4.1 some changes were introduced
compared to I think an earlier version of REVTeX which I guess might have
been version 4 of it.
Also I compared the appearance of one reference in .bbl files produced
with LaTeX and BibTeX using both plainnat.bst of Natbib 8.31a and
apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1. The .bbl file produced using apsrev4-1.bst
contained a number of the commands or variables which LaTeX2HTML "referred
to" as undefined commands, such as BibitemOpen, BibitemShut, citenamefont,
bibnamefont, bibfnamefont, bibfield, bibinfo, and href@noop; for the same
test reference the .bbl file produced using plainnat.bst did not contain
any of those commands or variables. So my guess is that those new
commands or variables are associated with REVTeX 4.1 in the year 2010 or
perhaps slightly earlier, which is too new for the year-2008 LaTeX2HTML or
the year-2001 file natbib.perl it contained to have accommodated them.
Also following another hint from Satsuma at
http://texblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/natbib-multiple-reference-citation/
for citenum being undefined, he or she mentioned that one should obtain a
year-2007 version of natbib.sty to replace a year-2003 version of it (But
in the year 2011 there is a year-2009 version of that file available, as I
listed its date above.). So in the text editor Kate I looked inside he
file natbib.sty of Natbib 8.31a and found that citenum is defined with a
new command in that file. Copying that file from in my case the directory
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/natbib to the directory containing my .tex
files, similar to what Satsuma did with a year-2007 version of nabib.sty,
unfortunately did not result in LaTeX2HTML "recognizing" citenum in a .tex
file. So I suppose that LaTeX2HTML 1.71 may not have been built to
accommodate the variable or command citenum in a .tex file.
Professor Ross Moore or anyone else knowledgeable of the internal code of
LaTeX2HTML 1.71 and the software packages it can accommodate is welcome to
correct me here. But if my reasoning, thinking, and some guessing are
correct here, I suggest that the next version of LaTeX2HTML be built to
accommodate citenum in a .tex file and the various variables or commands
BibitemOpen, BibitemShut, citenamefont, bibnamefont, bibfnamefont,
bibfield, bibinfo, and href@noop in a .bbl file, which I supposed may have
been produced in my .bbl file as a result of using the bibliographic style
file apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1.
But in the near future, if one is not too particular in trying to exactly
duplicate the referencing style of apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1, for use
with LaTeX2HTML plainnat.bst can serve as a reasonable, but not exact,
functional substitute. With the command \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{} for use
with natbib in a .tex file, the use of plainnat.bst can produce
automatically numbered numerical superscripts corresponding to, for
example,$^{\cite{RAT92}}$ in the text and numbers on the base line in the
bibliography of the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML, similar, but
exactly like what the use of apsrev4-1.bst would produce. With LaTeX2HTML
1.71 I suggest using only superscripts for automatically numbered
referencing. Allow me to oversimplfiy things somewhat here; more details
and Internet references are given in my previous letter in this chain of
e-mail letters; besides, it is possible I might miss some of the details
here myself. For publication in Physical Review journals, books, or other
journals in which simple numerical superscripts are used for reference
citations, one might use
\documentclass[prb,longbibliography,12pt]{revtex4-1},
\bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}, and \bibliography{MyBib}, where MyBib.bib
is the file containing your reference data for your document's
bibliography; from a .dvi file produced by LaTeX it should be possible to
print those references along with the rest of the document onto paper.
And for online or computer versions of documents and publications with
internal and external hyperlinks one might use
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}, \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib},
\usepackage{....,doi,hyperref,hypernat}, \bibpunct{]{]{,}{s}{},
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}, \bibliography{MyBib,revtex-custom}, where
the contents of a file revtex-custom.bib, including REVTeX 4.1 controls,
are discussed at
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes.
It might be necessary to experiment with the order of the packages in a
\usepackage{........} statement to avoid errors.
There are still a few things that I haven't gotten to work satisfactorily
yet. One of them is with multiple reference numbers as one superscript
always being in numerical order. And I haven't checked to see whether the
compression worked correctly or not, for example references(superscript
1,2,3,4) becoming references(superscript 1-4). But, when necessary, those
cases can be manually edited in the .tex file to produce what you desire,
as mentioned at
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=8897. I have
some unwanted pairs of side-by-side parentheses in .my .dvi file or
unwanted letters like a, b, etc., in my .html file sometimes appearing in
some references in my bibliography corresponding to sometimes when I have
\htmladdnormallink{http://..../}{http://....../} in my .tex file. My
table of contents doesn't show all four levels of chapter-and-sectioning
in the .html file that are shown in the corresponding .dvi file. And my
internal hyperlink in the table of contents for "Bibliography" isn't
working for me in the .html file.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:32 AM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: In my LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html file the references don't look
good. What am I missing?
Hello. I have been using:
the September 24, 2009 version of LaTeX 2e,
BibTeX 0.99b,
by the command \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib} the natbib software
package with the options sort&compress and with the additional command
\bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{} (similar to at
http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/bibliographies on the
Internet),
the apsrev4-1.bst bibliographic style file of REVTeX 4.1 called in a
.tex-file command of the form \bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}, and
LaTeX2HTML 1.71
in an openSUSE-11.4, Linux operating system. This is my first attempt to
try to produce a letter for distribution to some other people which uses
automatically numbered references, figures, tables, and equations and
which uses a .bib, bibliography file external to my .tex file; for that
matter I may not have even used BibTeX before this attempt.
My use of several commands with natbib followed the advice of I think
Daniel Els at
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes.
Similar to the procedure mentioned at
http://www.wujiewen.com/faq/content/2/33/en/how-to-use-latex2html-to-convert-my-paper-to-webpages.html, I
performed program executions of the following forms, here using the
fictitious name MyFile:
latex MyFile.tex
bibtek MyFile
latex MyFile.tex
latex MyFile.tex
latex2html............MyFile.tex
latex2html............MyFile.tex
.
For my .bib-file entry
@article{RAT92,
author="M. Rath and L. Pauling",
title="",
journal={J. Orthomolecular Medicine},
volume="{\bf 7}",
number="1",
pages="5",
year="1992"}
BibTeX and/or LaTeX produced in the .bbl, output file
\bibitem [{\citenamefont {Rath}\ and\ \citenamefont
{Pauling}(1992)}]{RAT92}%
\BibitemOpen
\bibfield {author} {\bibinfo {author} {\bibfnamefont
{M.}~\bibnamefont
{Rath}}\ and\ \bibinfo {author} {\bibfnamefont {L.}~\bibnamefont
{Pauling}},\
}\href@noop {} {\bibfield {journal} {\bibinfo {journal} {J.
Orthomolecular
Medicine},\ }\textbf {\bibinfo {volume} {{\bf 7}}},\ \bibinfo {pages}
{5}
(\bibinfo {year} {1992})}\BibitemShut {NoStop}%
and in the .dvi (DeVice-Independent), output file
[22] M. Rath and L. Pauling, J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 7, 5, (1992).
with the volume number 7 in a bold typeface.
But LaTeX2HTML, executed by a command of the form
latex2html -nonavigation -no_math -html_version 3.2,math -split 0
MyFile.tex
, correspondingly produced in its output, .html (HyperText Markup
Language) file
22 author author M. Rath -
bibinfo author L. Pauling,#18543#> journal journal J. Orthomolecular
Medicine,#18056#>volume 7,
bibinfo pages 5 (year 1992)NoStop
instead of something close to what appeared in the .dvi file, and in a
terminal program from which LaTeX2HTML was executed the following
messages:
Unknown commands: citenamefont captionsetup bibfnamefont citenum enquote
ed bibnamefont BibitemShut ( href_at_noon BibitemOpen
bibfield < natexlib bibinfo
.
Note that among the commands "reported" as unknown by LaTeX2HTML,
citenamefont, bibfnamefont, bibnamefont, BibitemShut, as well as
BibitemOpen, bibfield, and bibinfo all appear in the entry of the .bbl
file which LaTeX2HTML is supposed to be using. And it appears from the
.html output file that LaTeX2HTML did indeed "read" M. Rath, L. Pauling,
J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 7, 5, and 1992 from the .bbl file. The
command or software package citenum was used in my .tex file in the
command \newcommand{\onlinecite}[1]{\hspace{-1 ex}
\nocite{#1}\citenum{#1}}, following advice from
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=8897. The
purpose of that command was to allow the use of this custom
\onlinecite{...} command in text so that reference numbers could appear
on the base line of text, rather than as superscripts dictated by the "s"
for superscript in the .tex-file command \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{}. As far as
just the correct reference numbers appearing was concerned, that custom
\onlinecite{..} command worked for me in the .dvi file produced by LaTeX,
but not in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML, perhaps because
LaTeX2HTML did not "recognize" citenum in the \newcommand.... in my .tex
file to define the custom \onlinecite{..} command (Instead in the .html
file the reference "KEY" for a reference appeared [RAT92 is the reference
key in the .bib-file entry I discussed earlier here.]; it was desired to
have had an internally hyperlinked reference number there in the .html
file corresponding to a .tex-file command of the form \onlinecite{KEY}.).
I also used captionsetup in my .tex file in the command
\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty,labelsep=none} along with
\usepackage{.....,caption,....}.
Following a suggestion posted by Professor Ross Moore for a different
problem than mine in the Internet thread which includes
http://www.mail-archive.com/latex2html@tug.og/msg02874.html, but might be
in a later reply to that message posted on that Web page, I found the
file /usr/share/doc/packages/latex2html/dot.latex2hmtl-init and in it
after "###Other global variables" entered a comment line of my own with a
# at its beginning and the pair of statements:
if($DO_INCLUDE) {$DO_INCLUDE .= ':bbl'}
else{ $DO_INCLUDE = 'bbl'};
. Did I enter those lines in the correct file and in an acceptable
location in that file? But unfortunately the result of such entry was no
noticeable improvement for me in the bibliographic entries in the .html
file produced from the .bbl file by the program LaTeX2HTML. What did I
miss in all of this that 1) prevented the references in the .html file
from looking as good as they did in the .dvi file and 2) prevented the
custom \onlinecite{..} command from working in the .html file?
Pat
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