Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:38:54 -0600 Paul E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > ...
>
> I remember that I once read about \newcommand in a LaTeX textbook that its
> arguments must not be spread across lines (may be this was a 2.09 feature
> that got solved in 2e). I.e. LaTeX2HTML behaves as I would expect.
>
> The same textbook offered a workaround using comment characters. One could do
>
> \newcommand\myHangIndent[1]{%
> \begin{HangIndent} #1%
> \end{HangIndent}
>
> as the % comments out everything until and including the EOL char.
>
> Would this work with LaTeX2HTML?
I found this fixed some problems in PS and PDF, but not latex2html.
