Re: [l2h] Further development, collaboration and responsibilities

2013-11-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
rd from him since some time in the 1990s), and ross moore. ross occasionally posts to this list, so i guess you ought to make contact with him. Robin Fairbairns speaking as a member of, but not _for_ the CTAN team. ___ latex2html mailing list latex2h

Re: [l2h] Wrong figure numbers in figure captions when I attempted to have my figures automatically numbered using ~\ref..... commands in my .tex file

2013-01-15 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Pat Somerville wrote: > Hello. I tried to automatically number > figures using commands like "Fig.~\ref{}" and in text and \label{...} > commands within figure environments in my .tex file. I might have tried to > include figure captions within \caption and/or \parbox commands. > Anyho

Re: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-23 Thread Robin Fairbairns
at situation, i generally tend not to (after agonising about it for a while) on the grounds that i don't want to waste any _more_ time. sorry you've been inconvenienced. i hope you understand our situation. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

Re: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-22 Thread Robin Fairbairns
tex2html, so i can't claim to know whether this is a reasonable. roughly speaking, with abandonware like l2h, we merely go by the licence. gpl implies (to us) that anyone can hack out a bug and re-release. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team _

Re: [l2h] mirroring latex2html

2012-06-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
py to ctan for onward propagation: we have found we can't (reliably) mirror via http. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

[l2h] mirroring latex2html

2012-06-07 Thread Robin Fairbairns
ctan.org/upport/latex2html please form an orderly queue ... i can only deal with one suggestion at a time! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

Re: [l2h] Website and documentation need fixes and updates

2012-02-23 Thread Robin Fairbairns
iate that a pdf doesn't have qualities one would expect from an updated html, but as i've outlined, i don't currently know how to create a working version of that. hth. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

[l2h] on-line documentation of latex2html?

2008-10-02 Thread Robin Fairbairns
the ctan catalogue (and http://www.latex2html.org/) lists http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/l2h/docs/manual/ which no longer exists (i've actually deleted the link from the catalogue repository, now). latex2html.org also lists http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/l2h/l2h-note.html which is also an ex-page

Re: [l2h] Anything "new"?

2007-09-06 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, pdf pollutes the web with bunches of non-hypertext stuff. what??? the pdf i generate has as much hypertext in it as any html i generate. there's a valid use for pdf on the web, as much as there is for html. the sole objection i know

[l2h] url.sty in latex2html

2007-06-13 Thread Robin Fairbairns
what i take to be the latest latex2html (latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz) contains *two* copies of an ancient broken url.sty since latex2html doesn't work in the absence of a tex distribution, and any rational distribution contains url.sty as default (and of course, a more up-to-date, less broken versi

Re: [l2h] Another take on the 'no images' problem

2006-06-07 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> Maybe the graphicx package is one of those that don't detect pdflatex > correctly? hahaha. > I was premature in announcing my solution to the 'no dvi' problem. > The command line switch has no effect if the preamble includes > > /usepackage[pdftex]{graphics} so (modulo the direction of the "\

Re: [l2h] Another take on the 'no images' problem

2006-06-06 Thread Robin Fairbairns
One way to fix the problem is to have \pdfoutput=0 at the top of your LaTeX jobs, but there should be an easier way to configure the same result. no, after loading the package that breaks things. the problem is that some packages (including html.sty, last i looked) use a broken means

Re: [l2h] Tilde problem

2006-01-02 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> > Thanks for the pointer, Les. After smacking the side of head a few times > the light is slowly coming on :) > > Yes, a tilde is a non-breaking space. So, with > > \newcommand{\path}[1]{\texttt{#1}} > > I can do something like \path{\~{}/foo} and it works just fine. But, if > I use the \pa

Re: [l2h] Parse bug

2005-12-14 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Erling D. Andersen writes: > Below is simple document. The output is at > > http://www.mosek.com/l2h/document.html > > This demonstrate there is a parse bug because the author filed is wrong. > > \documentclass{book} > > \title{something} > > \author{ > between \vspace{0.5cm} \\ > MOSEK ApS \

Re: [l2h] newbie questions

2005-08-03 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> 1) It seems like there are a lot of dead links abouth > latex2html. Could someone tell me where the manual and > the faq are? dunno about "the faq" the "primary site" (http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht) has a link to the manual on ross's site (at least that's what i presume the site

[l2h] latex2html on ctan

2005-07-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
i note that our mirror of latex2html has not changed since 2002. does this mean that development has ceased? or is there stuff going on that we're not mirroring? should we delete the ctan directory for latex2html? Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN

Re: [l2h] latex2html tar file was problem

2005-06-22 Thread Robin Fairbairns
ng for you. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ___ latex2html mailing list latex2html@tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html

Re: [l2h] latex2html doesn't work anymore with tetex 3.0?

2005-03-15 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> Ross Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> さんは書きました: > > > Hyperref is being loaded above with the 'hdvips' driver. > > This is wrong. It should now be the hpdftex driver. > > > > Your hyperref.cfg file should detect this. > > > >> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.cfg > > Af

Re: [l2h] png images

2001-06-21 Thread Robin Fairbairns
wendy wrote: > Just some information from a Web Graphics Design class > about png files. > > "The major browsers don't treat png > consistently, so we recommend not using them for now. ... > I'd suggest reoptimizing as either jpegs > or gifs from the source files." > May 2001. > > So don't

Re: [l2h] textrm{} does not work -- and \texttt problems

2001-05-04 Thread Robin Fairbairns
edwin steiner wrote: > Ross Moore wrote: > > [Edwin Steiner wrote:] > > > When LaTeX processes the document > > > > > > \documentclass{article} > > > \newcommand{\mytt}[1]{{\tt #1}} > > > \newcommand{\myrm}[1]{{\rm #1}} > > > \begin{document} > > > > > > \texttt{AAA\textrm{B

Re: [l2h] redhat 7

2001-03-12 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> I tried 2 installations. The first was the latest beta from ctan > (latex2html-99.2beta8.tar.gz, which is Dec 21, 2000). that's not the latest beta on ctan; latex2html-2K.1beta.tar.gz is (it's updated at least every other day). note ctan doesn't hold "stable" versions since the ftp site that

[l2h] Re: Is latex2html supported?

2000-01-03 Thread Robin Fairbairns
marek rouchal writes: > the answer is simple: Yes, it is! that it's supported isn't in doubt (to me): the problem is that this support is invisible other than to those who follow the latex2html list. i most certainly wouldn't have known about the bayreuth site if i weren't on that list. > Ther

[l2h] (from c.t.t) "Is latex2html supported?"

2000-01-01 Thread Robin Fairbairns
developments terribly carefully. so i'm not the person to evangelise for latex2html ... but i am at least in a position to point out problems to others. btw, my mirroring is Package=support/latex2html |=site=www-dsed.llnl.gov |=remote_dir=/files/programs/unix/latex2html do let me know if i have it wrong... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

Re: [l2h] Re: Tables

1999-12-28 Thread Robin Fairbairns
ross writes, in response to Joerg Broeker: [recipes for joerg to achieve what he wants] > > > In Latex "logic" there is a difference between row and row ;-) - A > > > "logical" row is ended with "\\" a "optical" row is ended with "\hline". > > > In HTML the "logical" and the "optical" row are ide

Re: [l2h] Re: Guillemets and OE

1999-09-09 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> Yes, the guillemets are in Latin-1 and other charsets, > including Latin-9. > > It is the \oe and \OE that are not, but are now in Latin-9. it's all very odd. particularly since afnor (the french standards organisation) held the secretariat and chair of the relevant subcommittee of iso tc97 (

Re: WARNING: (Z36C99A05V) Good to go (idiot spam trap)

1999-03-16 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by tug.org id BAA00059 > > > This can still be improved. what? you mean idiot spam traps intercepting and moaning about valid messages? or idiot mtas converting from 8bit to quoted unreadable?

Re: Test message

1999-03-16 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> This is a test message to ensure that all recipients receive list mail, that > mail is archived, and mhonarced. and what?? can the tug box reinstitute flagging l2h messages in the subject line, please? (i'm certainly on other majordomo lists that do it.) robin