In openSUSE 12.2 I did not have the problem of the word "Image" instead of some
mathematics appearing in equation mode in HyperText Markup Language (.html)
files produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 that I have been reporting in this chain of
electronic-mail letters. All indications I found are that I could not have
been using TeX Live 2012 software packages in openSUSE 12.2, but was likely
using TeX Live 2011 software packages in openSUSE 12.2. On an openSUSE Web
page I read that in openSUSE 12.3 TeX Live 2012 has been split into modularized
components; evidently that is a change from openSUSE 12.2 using TeX Live 2011
components. So I wonder if my image problem could have been caused by using
LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML 1.71 in TeX Live 2012 or else a problem with my combined
installation of 227 software packages with "texlive" or "latex" in each of
their names, for example possibly in an ls-R file not being up to date for all
of the installed TeX Live 2012 software packages (They were probably all
installed via Yet another Software Tool 2 [YaST2] in openSUSE 12.3.). By
appending -w at the end of the first line of the /usr/bin/latex2html probably
Perl script file I could see what for a person who understands the LaTeX2HTML
code might well be hints of the cause of the trouble. During "latex2html
....Throwaway28.tex" execution messages including content like the following
content appeared after "processing 16 images":
"Use of uninitialized value $dvi_mag in numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/latex2html
line 4041, <LOG> 516."
"Use of uninitialized value $env" at "/usr/bin/latex2html" "line 9600".
Then after "Doing section links" similarly
"Use of uninitialized value" for "split" at lines 7606, 7549 of latex2html.
"Use of uninitialized value" for $lbody in pattern match (m//)" at line 7550 of
latex2html,
and similarly for $STYLESHEET_CASCADE at line 7108, $list_class at line 7862,
$2 and $1 in concatenation (.) or string at line 8951, $2 in concatenation (.)
or string at line 8771, $EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET at line 7142.
I have not been able to get LaTeX2HTML 1.71 working always as desired in any of
the three states of hard-disk data dated March 21, 2013; April 26, 2013; or
July 11, 2013; of course the real problem might well be in my TeX Live 2012 or
openSUSE 12.3 software external to the LaTeX2HTML-1.71 code itself. The TeX
Live-2012 and/or LaTeX-related directory structure in openSUSE 12.3 on my
hard-disk drive for its March 21, 2013 state appears to be
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex. Although I have only appended the -w option in the
first line of the Perl script /usr/bin/latex2html for the March 21, 2013 state
of the hard-disk drive data, I suspect the "Image" problem in some equations
may be similar for all three states of the hard-disk drive data.---Some updates
to openSUSE-12.3 software and possibly one or more new versions of the Linux
kernel may have been installed in the April and/or July states compared to the
March state of the hard-disk-drive data. I think I will restore the
hard-disk-drive data to their state on July 11, 2013. I hope that in this
chain of electronic-mail letters I might have provided sufficient clues so that
someone knowledgeable of LaTeX2HTML 1.71's function can guess both what my
trouble might have been and how to remedy it; or else someone may be able to
advise me on how to further diagnose the cause of the trouble reported here.
Pat
From: l_pa...@hotmail.com
To: latex2html@tug.org
Subject: RE: Some mathematical images in my case not fully processed by
LaTeX2HTML 1.71 using both an old and a new .tex file
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:00:20 +0000
Conditions: TeXLive 2012, LaTeX2HTML 1.71, Konqueror Web browser in an
openSUSE-12.3, Linux operating system
I restored the data on my computer's hard-disk drive back to their state on
March 21, 2013 when my tests showed that the computer programs LaTeX and
LaTeX2HTML were both working, but in fact on July 15, 2013 found that
LaTeX2HTML only produced good-looking mathematics for me under certain
conditions, as described below.
I had LaTeX commands for mathematics in a file called Throwaway16.tex. In the
corresponding LaTeX2HTML output file Throwaway16.html the mathematics looked
good that was produced from a LaTeX2HTML execution probably long before the
switch from some earlier version of openSUSE to openSUSE 12.3. I deleted the
folder Throwaway16 and the files Throwaway16.aux, Throwaway16.dvi,
Throwaway16.log, and Throwaway16.out. Then I executed latex and latex2html
...... commands on Throwaway16.tex twice each as a non-root user. The
mathematics in the output file Throwaway16.html again looked good.
In the text editor Kate I selected all of the contents of the file
Throwaway16.tex, copied them to the computer "clipboard," and then "pasted"
them into a blank file, saving it with the file name of Throwaway28.tex. Then
I executed latex and "latex2html ....." commands on that file and saw numerous
"Image"s in the corresponding output file Throwaway28.html instead of the
desired mathematics.
In another test using the file Throwaway17.tex I added the -debug option to my
latex2html .... command and subsequently found a TMP subfolder containing files
within the folder entitled Throwaway17. LaTeX2HTML "reported" that the
/tmp/l2h1004 folder would contain images. But after the LaTeX2HTML execution a
directory entitled l2h1004 was not found on the hard-disk drive.
All three files Throwaway16.tex, Throwaway17.tex, and Throwaway28.tex were
saved in the text editor Kate in the 8-bit Uniform Transformation Format
(UTF-8) encoding. The mathematics in the corresponding DeVice Independent
(.dvi) files produced by execution of LaTeX on those three, .tex files
gratefully looked good in the computer program Okular. I request
diagnostic-procedural or problem-cause-guessing help in consistently obtaining
good-looking mathematics in .html (HyperText Markup Language) output files
produced by LaTeX2HTML.
Pat
From: l_pa...@hotmail.com
To: latex2html@tug.org
Subject: Re: Some mathematical images in my case not fully processed by
LaTeX2HTML 1.71 using both an old and a new .tex file
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:20:59 -0400
Correction: It is LaTeX, not LaTeX2HTML which is
desired to "find" html.sty in the directory /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/html.
Sorry, I made that error.
Pat
From: Pat Somerville
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:12 AM
To: latex2html@tug.org
Subject: Re: Some mathematical images in my case not fully processed
by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 using both an old and a new .tex file
Hello. I checked the dates of "builds" of software
packages that I have installed and with names of software packages that
LaTeX2HTML requires and found that a number of them were "built" before I
installed a working pair of LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML computer programs in an
openSUSE-12.3 Linux operating system by about March 20, 2013. For example, for
the software packages Netpbm and Perl, which LaTeX2HTML requires, the dates of
the "builds" of them that I now have installed in my Linux operating system are
earlier in time than the date of my installations of openSUSE-12.3 Linux,
LaTeX,
and LaTeX2HTML which gratefully worked well together in late March of the year
2013. But yet something apparently changed in the software installed in my
openSUSE-12.3, Linux operating system between late March of the year 2013 and
early July of the same year to cause a problem for LaTeX2HTML 1.71.
Today I provide additional information which may or may not
provide clues to why "Image" instead of "1/2" appeared in equation mode in the
.html (HyperText Markup Language) equivalent produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 of the
LaTeX code y=\frac{1}{2}x^2. For discussion purposes here I use the fictitious
file name MyFile.tex; my actual file name is different from MyFile.tex. As a
non-root user after executing a command of the form "latex MyFile.tex" and then
a command of the form "latex2html ......... MyFile.tex," I saw in the
output
"Images will be generated in /tmp/l2h1683
Error: Unlink "WARNINGS" failed: Permission denied at
/usr/bin/latex2html line 9269. Cannot create directory 'TMP': Permission
denied
.
And afterwards I did not find the subdirectory l2h1683 in
the /tmp directory.
Executing the command of the form "latex2html ........
MyFile.tex" as a root user I think eliminated such error messages. But
unfortunately still the desired "1/2" did not appear in the output, .html file
in equation mode.
I unstalled the openSUSE-12.3 software package called
"latex2html" and reinstalled it using Yet another Software Tool 2 (YaST2).
Things worsened.---After a command of the form "latex MyFile.tex" the file
html.sty was reported as not found. But html.sty was in the directory
/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/html. So please explain how I can make LaTeX2HTML
"find" it there. Anyhow, copying html.sty from /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/html to
my directory in which I store .tex files and running a command of the form
"latex MyFile.tex" there was what one might call a "workaround" solution that
enabled "LaTeX2HTML" to "locate" a copy of the file html.sty. After executing a
command of the form "latex2html ...... MyFile.tex," the desired "1/2" in
equation mode still did not appear in the produced file with a name of the form
MyFile.html. Inserting ? in each of two lines of code in the file
/usr/bin/latex2html according to
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2008-December/003489.html eliminated
mathend# appearing in place of mathematics in text of the .html output
file.
I experimented and found that as a non-root user in the
Konqueror Web browser and file manager I could make a test subdirectory and
delete it. As a root user I entered the command "lsattr -d /tmp" and obtained a
result similar to "----------e-- /tmp" with the "e" standing for "extent,"
meaning that files would be written in contiguous fashion in the probably ext4
file system in which my openSUSE-12.3 partition of my computer's hard-disk
drive
was written. So that result was okay. I also entered the command "getfacl /tmp"
to obtain an access control list and afterwards saw that the /tmp directory had
read, write, and execute permissions for that directory's "Owner," for "Group",
and for "Others". In addition there appeared the line "#flags --t" in the
output
after entering the command "getfacl /tmp". The "t" indicated that the "sticky
bit" was set, meaning that only a root user could delete or rename files in the
directory /tmp; I assume the same thing would apply to subdirectories of /tmp.
As a root user entering the change mode (chmod) command "chmod -t /tmp" to
unset
the sticky bit did not help to have "1/2" in the .html output resulting from a
command of the form "latex2html ...... MyFile.tex". So I reset the sticky bit
with the command "chmod +t /tmp". The summary of this paragraph is that I found
nothing restrictive in the ordinary or extended attributes of the directory
/tmp
that should have prevented latex2html from making a subdirectory within it with
a name of the form l2h......
The image of the factor of 1/2 needed in equation mode
apparently was not written into into a .png (Portable Network Graphics) image
file. Please help me solve the problems of making the image of 1/2 appear in
equation mode and of enabling LaTeX2HTML to "locate" the file
/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/html/html.sty.
Pat
From: Pat Somerville
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:49 AM
To: latex2html@tug.org
Subject: Some mathematical images in my case not fully processed by
LaTeX2HTML 1.71 using both an old and a new .tex file
Hello. In March of the year 2013 I upgraded or else performed a "clean"
installation from an openSUSE-12.2 to openSUSE-12.3 Linux operating system.
Afterward I installed lots of texlive software packages and updates to software
packages in the openSUSE-12.3 Linux operating system. I then performed tests on
a .tex file using the programs LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML. My notes of March 20, 2013
show that things regarding LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML worked okay in that test.
Afterward I think I added one ? to each two lines of computer code in the file
/usr/bin/latex2html, following Shigeharu Takeno's kindly provided advice at
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/latex2html/2008-December/003489.html on the
Internet. On the same day after making those edits my notes indicate that in a
test LaTeX2HTML produced good-looking mathematics. Checking those edits on July
8, 2013 it appeared that gratefully I made them correctly. One unusual thing is
that unlike after previous installations of openSUSE and texlive software
packages no line reading, except for the double quotation marks, " $DVIPSOPT= '
-Ppdf -E'; " was found in the file /usr/lib/latex2html/l2hconf.pm; so due to
not
finding such a line of code, it was not commented out, as I had done on one or
more earlier occasions again following Shigeharu Takeno's kindly provided
advice. I have updated the openSUSE-12.3 Linux operating system, in which I
have
been using LaTeX2HTML 1.71, numerous times since March 20, 2013, most recently
on July 7, 2013.
But on July 8, 2013, while running a "latex2html ......" command on a .tex
file, I observed I think a new phenomenon for me (A "latex ....tex" command had
already been executed by that time.). After seeing the message reading
something
like "processing 192 images," unlike what I had seen in the past when
processing
a new, .tex document, I did not see the image numbers appearing one per line in
a terminal program as those images were being processed as the result of a
"latex2html...." command being executed. Then afterward when attempting to view
the .html document produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 I saw inline mathematical images
within a paragraph of text displayed correctly. But following that success in
the .html file unfortunately I saw some parts of equations appearing in each
failed case as "Image" in my installation of the Konqueror Web browser (The
problem was also observed in a Mozilla Firefox Web browser.). For example, in
the test equation y=(1/2) x**2, with LaTeX code for it appearing as
y=\frac{1}{2}x^2, x squared was displayed correctly in equation mode; but for
the fraction of one-half instead the word "Image" appeared on what looked
something like a software "button." Looking in the folder in which LaTeX2HTML
produced the .html output file in one case many Portable Network Graphics
(.png)
files were there. In a different test case I tried to inspect a .png image file
using the program GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and
saw
the word "Image," but otherwise did not see "1/2" or a portion of an equation.
So apparently such images were not completely produced by LaTeX2HTML for a very
general reason I later hypothesize here. Unfortunately this "Image" problem
occurred when processing both an old and a new .tex file using probably the
combination of the programs LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML. On the other hand, when the
DeVice-Independent (.dvi) output file produced by LaTeX was viewed in the
program Okular, the sampled equations looked good.
In summary, this matter appears complicated because of the many software
packages installed in my Linux operating system. But I think I used LaTeX2HTML
version 1.71 even before my installation of the openSUSE-12.3 Linux operating
system and do not recall ever seeing this exact problem before July 8, 2013.
And
shortly after the installation of openSUSE 12.3 and some "texlive" software
packages and making some updates to software packages within the openSUSE-12.3
system, the programs LaTeX and LaTeX2THML worked okay. My subsequent edits of
two lines of code in the file /usr/bin/latex2hml gratefully appear to have been
properly made. So a simple hypothesis is that the "Image" problem might have
been caused by one or more of the many updates to software packages in openSUSE
12.3 that I have made through Yet Another Software Tool 2 (YaST2) since March
20, 2013. I do have a file called images.log in the .html file's output
directory that contains about 349 lines for a test case. Perhaps there could be
a clue to the problem within that file. I request that someone please either
make a good guess for me of the cause and solution to this problem or else
provide for me a diagnostic means by which I could hopefully determine the
cause
of this problem, such as to look for a certain kind of clue in the file
images.log.
Pat
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