I got this email from Ross Moore about the problem I had with my
regression notes and latex2html. He sys LyX is not outputting proper
TeX for my user-defined paragraph environment "myHangIndent". That
specific point is about 2/3 of the way down, but I leave the rest for
context. My part begins with >, the rest is from Ross Moore, who is
answing bug reports for latex2html today.
> I have a TeX document that latex2html cannot process, apparently
because
> it has this bit in the preamble:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
> \newenvironment{HangIndent}
> {\list{}{%
> \setlength\leftmargin{1.5cm}% leftmargin
> \itemindent-\leftmargin}\item{}}
> {\endlist}
> \newcommand\myHangIndent[1]{
> \begin{HangIndent} #1
> \end{HangIndent}
> }
The problem is that LaTeX2HTML wants you to give the definition as:
\newcommand{\myHangIndent}[1]{... etc ...
With that, everything processes smoothly;
though it doesn't necessarily do the best possible translation.
e.g. have a look at:
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/PJOHNSON/multRegNotes1/
Besides, LaTeX2HTML wrote a huge error message into the log-window,
saying that:
%%%%%%,,, *** Could not find argument for command \newcommand ***
viz:
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles/inputenc.perl
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles/babel.perl
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/versions/lang.pl
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles/graphics.perl
Reading ...
%%%%%%,,, *** Could not find argument for command \newcommand ***
\myHangIndent[1]<<309>>
\begin<<13>>HangIndent<<13>> #1
\end<<14>>HangIndent<<14>>
<<309>>
\par
> If that bit is in the preamble, then the processing of math breaks,
and
> equations get written to image files with format "hatb" instead of
a hat
> over a b.
This doesn't happen for me.
It may be something left over from the other error though,
since almost the whole file was scanned looking for the { after
\newcommand .
I'll look at programming to lessen the severity of this "error".
> I have the document in this directory:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/ps707/multReg1
> The file is "multRegNotes1.tex"
> I also have the lyx file from which it was exported and the 2 eps
> figures are in the same directory.
Does LyX export as \newcommand\myHangIndent or was that yourself ?
You should complain to LyX for not doing \newcommand{\myHangIndent}
which is more in keeping with LaTeX style, although both work with
a TeX engine.
> If I leave in the hangindent TeX above, the equations are ugly, and
I've
> put just one example of an ugly one in that directory too:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/ps707/multReg1/img16.png
All the \ characters are lost.
This is typical when balance of environment delimiters gets badly
out-of-whack somehow.
> If I delete the HangIndent from the Tex preamble and remove its one
> usage, then latex2html is able to process the file without trouble.
>
> I get this same result with latex2html 99.2 or 99.3, but one other
user
> in the lyx user group showed me his version 96 worked fine on
Solaris.
>
> If you can tell me what I did wrong, I'd appreciate it.
The above should help you to get the file processed satisfactorily.
Ross Moore
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