Hello again. When using the software package natbib and its bibliographic style file plainnat.bst in a .tex file gratefully I learned a way to obtain reference numbers both on the base line of text and as superscripts in both the .dvi file produced by the September 24, 2009 version of LaTeX 2e and the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 (These are automatically numbered reference numbers corresponding to reference keys, for example "RAT92" for the reference M. Rath and L. Pauling, J. Orthomolecular Medicine 7(1), 5 (1992), in a special format in a .bib file.). In the .tex file that uses natbib and its plainnat.bst for plain reference numbers with no parentheses or brackets or pairs of something else surrounding them and for commas to separate a series of reference numbers, include the command

\bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}

in the .tex file. (I think the "n" stands for numeric reference citations on the base line of the text. Instead of "n" an "s" there would stand for superscripted numbers for the reference citations. I think the references are supposed to be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the .tex document.) This will replace the numerical reference equivalent of \cite{RAT92} on the base line of text with the reference number corresponding to the example reference key "RAT92" of a reference with data for it listed in a .bib file. The LaTeX command $^{\cite{RAT92}}$ in the .tex file will corresponded to that reference number as well, but superscripted. A beautiful thing about this procedure is that gratefully 1) it worked this way for reference numbers, both on the base line of text and as superscripts, in both the .dvi file produced by using the September 24, 2009 version of LaTeX 2e with BibTeX 0.99d and the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71. So using natbib and its plainnat.bst with the line \bib{}{}{,}{n}{} in the .tex file it is as if \cite{...} becomes the equivalent of REVTeX 4.1's \onlinecite{...}, where here I think online refers to having the reference number appear on the base line of text, not to being on the Internet. Done in this way a new command does not have to be made for a custom \onlinecite{...} built for use with natbib like the \onlinecite{...} command that works with REVTeX 4.1. So 2) this avoids the problem of LaTeX2HTML 1.71 not "recognizing" the citenum variable or command that was used in the custom-built \onlinecite{...} command! Furthermore when using natbib and plainnat.bst it appeared that I obtained similar-looking references in my bibliography without using the revtex-custom.bib file discussed at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes on the Internet.

Now I discuss a different problem of an internal hyperlink in my table of contents, which is called "Contents," to "Bibliography" not working. That is in a .tex file the statements \tableofcontents and \bibliography{MyBib}, where MyBib.bib is a file with the fictitious name MyBib.bib containing reference data, produced A) the hyperlinked entry "Bibliography" in "Contents" and B) the heading "Bibliography" appearing in the .dvi and .html files corresponding to where the equivalent of \bibliography{MyBib} was placed in the .tex file. But in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 clicking on that hyperlink did not "take" me to the "Bibliography" heading above the list of references in my document.

Here is a "workaround" solution for that problem. With .html file open in a Web browser one can right-button-click on its contents and select "View Document Source" or something similar to that. In my Konqueror Web browser that opened a text editor, in my case the text editor called Kate. Then I could see the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code for that .html file. For the fictitious file name MyFile.html it looked equivalent to this at the "Bibliography" entry in the "Contents:"

<LI><A NAME="tex2html139"
   HREF="MyFile.html#SECTION00700000000000000000>Bibliography</A>
</UL>

. Then at the section of my document headed by "Bibliography" the HTML code looked equivalent to this:

<P>
<H2><A NAME="SECTIONREF">Bibliography</A>
</H2>
......

In this case replacing "SECTIONREF" with "SECTION00700000000000000000" and then saving the file in the text editor Kate was probably enough to make the "Bibliography" internal hyperlink in "Contents" work. I wanted to have Bibligraphy numbered in both locations, too, since it was not numbered for me by using the -show_section_numbers option in my latex2html command. So in addition I changed "Bibliography" to "6 Bibliography" in each of the two locations in the above document source code. Is there a LaTeX command one can use to make that "Bibliography" internal hyperlink in "Contents" work without the need to edit the HTML document source code in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71? Adding something like

\label{Refs}
\section{Bibliography}

ahead of \bibliography{MyBib} I think resulted in hyperlinked "Bibliography" being listed twice in "Contents" and probably also with two instances of "Bibliography" appearing further down in the document, in each case doubling that I don't want.

Pat

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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:39 AM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] In my LaTeX2HTML-produced,.html file the references don't look good. What am I missing?

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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