Re: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-22 Thread Roland Stigge
On 11/22/2012 04:47 PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >> Now I wonder if I should use this as the new official "upstream" version >> to be built upon from now on? There are some doubts that I collected in >> the above Debian bug report. > > the author of this revision merely said "fix warnings in perl 5

[l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-21 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, at Debian, we found that there is http://mirrors.ctan.org/support/latex2html/latex2html-2012.tgz which wasn't announced as an official new release. See also http://bugs.debian.org/647433 Now I wonder if I should use this as the new official "upstream" version to be built upon from now on?

[l2h] Fwd: fw: Feature Request for Latex2HTML

2012-01-17 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi! I'm forwarding two suggestions by a Latex2HTML user. Thanks for considering. Roland --- Begin Message --- Hello Roland, I've tried to contact the author referenced in the man page. Since I've got a mailer daemon, I guess that his mail address has changed. Can you please forward it to him or

[l2h] Unofficial latex2html 2009 version

2011-11-02 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, at Debian, I just got the following request: http://bugs.debian.org/647433 There is an "unofficial 2009" version issued by someone at Stanford. Can we please coordinate what to do about it? Did they first try to contact the mailing list? Further, a new official release, including updates (m

[l2h] Debian's patches to latex2html

2010-07-24 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm still maintaining the latex2html package in Debian :-) and would like to give something back. :-) At http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/latex2html , you will always find a file called latex2html*.debian.tar.gz which includes Debian's adjustments to the original latex2html package. Sin

Re: [l2h] Error building manual

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, thanks for your thoughts. I solved the problem (packaging latex2html for Debian) by adding correct IMAGE_TYPE(S) settings at build-time (without already having latex2html installed). Roland Ross Moore wrote: Hi Roland, On 02/07/2009, at 6:21 AM, Roland Stigge wrote: Hi

[l2h] Error building manual

2009-07-01 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, building the Latex2HTML manual, I get: make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/latex2html-2008/docs' ../latex2html -test_mode -no_math -html_version 4.0,math,frame -accent_images textrm -scalable_fonts -short_index -split 4 -link 5 -no_auto_link -t "LaTeX2HTML" manual.tex; $* is no longe

Re: [l2h] [Fwd: Bug#385276: latex2html: 100% CPU and 100% RAM when compiling an itemize with no item in it]

2006-08-30 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, thanks for your reply. Ross Moore wrote: > By pre-testing with LaTeX before running a LaTeX2HTML job, > the error will be detected. > > This has always been the recommended way to use LaTeX2HTML, > and indeed is a *requirement* when there are symbolic links > and/or figure-captions that

[l2h] [Fwd: Bug#385276: latex2html: 100% CPU and 100% RAM when compiling an itemize with no item in it]

2006-08-30 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm forwarding a problem of a Debian user. Maybe interesting for you... Thanks. bye, Roland --- Begin Message --- Package: latex2html Version: 2002-2-1-20050114-5 Severity: normal -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'

[l2h] Debian Bug#355728: latex2html: please use typographic quotation marks

2006-04-17 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, greetings from Debian! Someone reported to us: > latex creates typographic quotation marks (“”) from the ``'' input. It > would be nice if latex2html would do the same if CHARSET=UTF-8 is set. I > think that even using "" would be better than ``'' in the html code. It > should also create a h

[l2h] Re: Bug#355487: table displayed incorrect

2006-04-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, a Debian user reported the following: > if i convert the following code with latex2html, the output of the table > does not look like expected (compared to output of pdflatex). the > generated html table has severe syntax errors. > > > \documentclass[austrian]{report} > \usepackage[]{fonten

Re: [l2h] [Fwd: Bug#132451: latex2html: -depth 24 breaks pstoimg [patch]]

2005-07-12 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, thanks for your comment! Ross Moore wrote: I'm attaching a mail that I got regarding a bug report I previously forwarded to this forum. It includes two possible solutions to the problem. To be consistent with the original latex2html, which one will be included in the latex2html co

[l2h] [Fwd: Bug#132451: latex2html: -depth 24 breaks pstoimg [patch]]

2005-07-12 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, I'm attaching a mail that I got regarding a bug report I previously forwarded to this forum. It includes two possible solutions to the problem. To be consistent with the original latex2html, which one will be included in the latex2html codebase? Thanks! bye, Roland --- Begin Message -

[l2h] latex2html: generates the same full table header twice

2005-05-28 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, a Debian user reported the following: When I invoke the program: $ latex2html -info"" -numbered_footnotes foo.tex it gives an html code with _all_ tables of the document with double captions. I have attached a sample

[l2h] [Fwd: Bug#298329: latex2html: pstoimg -multipage reads temporary files from other instances running at same time]

2005-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, what do you think about the attached problem+patch? Thanks, Roland -- --- Begin Message --- Package: latex2html Version: 2002-2-1-8 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, When two or more instances of pstoimg, called with the -multipage option and using the same temporary directory (/tmp by

[l2h] \refname change affects the latex but not latex2html output bibliography [amsart]

2005-02-20 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, a Debian user reported the following: == Consider the following LaTeX code (typeset with amsart): \def\refname{List of publications} \begin{thebibliography}{X} \bibitem{thesis} ...

Re: [l2h] [Fwd: Bug#276037: latex2html: please support \usepackage{array} along with the extended tabular syntax]

2004-10-12 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 01:21, Ross Moore wrote: > This extended syntax *is* supported by LaTeX2HTML, > when generating HTML for version 3.2 or 4.0. He was using "-html_version '4.0,table'" together with the array package. I can confirm that those seem to interfere somehow. Just in case it's i

Re: [l2h] [Fwd: Bug#276037: latex2html: please support \usepackage{array} along with the extended tabular syntax]

2004-10-12 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 01:21, Ross Moore wrote: > This extended syntax *is* supported by LaTeX2HTML, > when generating HTML for version 3.2 or 4.0. Sorry for the inconvenience; haven't checked that before forwarding it blindly. Stupid me. bye, Roland __

[l2h] [Fwd: Bug#276037: latex2html: please support \usepackage{array} along with the extended tabular syntax]

2004-10-11 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, FYI, a Debian user reported the problem described in the attachment. See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276037 Thanks for considering. bye, Roland --- Begin Message --- Package: latex2html Version: 2002-2-1-8 Severity: wishlist Could you please support the extended

[l2h] pstoimg: using -multipage options should use zeropadding

2004-05-03 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, a Debian user reported the following wishlist "bug": === The option -multipage results in files ending with numbers. When converting a document with more than 9 pages it results in: doc1.png doc2.png ... doc10.png A

Re: [l2h] Why have the md5sums for latex2html changed?

2004-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:37, Shigeharu TAKENO wrote: > > What's the latest officially released version? I was always thinnking > > that latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz, available from > > http://www.latex2html.org/current/ is the latest released version. > > >From the manual of l2h (section 2.3): > >

[l2h] Re: Bug#234879: latex2html: Latex2Html can not handle files/directories with space in names (I give a fix)

2004-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, a Debian user sent in the following bug report with a patch: On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:24, Mazen NEIFER wrote: > Package: latex2html > Version: 2002-2-1-4 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT poli

Re: [l2h] Why have the md5sums for latex2html changed?

2004-02-26 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:31, Shigeharu TAKENO wrote: > > MISSING be845028fcda69bde9ea0db200500f7a latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz > > NEW 444c53d1c23c16e1997c7673121f6280 latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz > > > > So I checked for reference here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/po

[l2h] LaTeX2HTML license: An answer from Leeds University

2004-01-27 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, today I received the attached mail. It should be enough for the original author (Nikos Drakos) and you, the maintainer, to decrease the scrupulosity to change the license (else, please contact me or Roger Hartley). I'm looking forward for the next release of LaTeX2HTML (as the rest of th

[l2h] Re: latex2html license: "A Letter to Leeds University", round 2

2004-01-14 Thread Roland Stigge
ts for using LaTeX > to write a relicensing request letter to the copyright holders of > LaTeX-related software. :) Right. :) The current plain text version is: == Roland Stigge Debian Developer [address placeholder] [EMAIL

[l2h] A Letter To Leeds University

2004-01-09 Thread Roland Stigge
2004-01-04: % * Incorporated changes of Matt Black % * Made name "University of Leeds" consistent % * "Debian GNU/Linux" -> "Debian" % \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{dinbrief} \usepackage{verbatim} \address{Roland Stigge\\ Debian Developer\\ \emph{address plac

Re: [l2h] avoiding conversion of "--" to "-"

2003-12-30 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 00:21, Ross Moore wrote: > Any further ideas would be welcome. No real idea, but more problems. ;) This very topic is one of the remaining open issues at Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/75416 The others are: http://bugs.debian.org/78161 http://bugs.debian.org/95

Re: [l2h] Debian bugs

2003-12-09 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross and Jens, thanks for your replies. On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 15:49, Ross Moore wrote: > > in a special section called "non-free" which doesn't mean that the > > ... but this is an unfortunate choice of designation... Regard it as a traditional name, not as a discrimination of LaTeX2HTML.

[l2h] Debian bugs

2003-12-09 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, first, I want to thank everybody involved in our LaTeX2HTML integration efforts for Debian and the licensing discussion. I'm maintaining the Debian latex2html package now integrating it into the next Debian release and we are looking forward to have LaTeX2HTML under a license which we consider

[l2h] latex2html non-free?

2003-12-06 Thread Roland Stigge
. It would be nice to have latex2html licensed under a free (in our sense) license, e.g. the GPL. At least, free redistribution and modification (and in turn, its redistribution) would be needed. Thanks for considering. Roland Stigge Debian Project [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-20 Thread Roland Stigge
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:36, Jens Lehmann wrote: > >>We are not in agreement yet. > > OK, I'm waiting for your decisions. > Are there any news on the license issue? I guess Ross is still asking / waiting for people to agree to the GPL proposal. To speed things up a bit, I've got some additional po

[l2h] [Debian] #183372: \includegraphics{image.jpg} converts to image tag with a full path, making it useless

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
tag 183372 pending thanks Hi Ross and Jens, the Debian bug #183372 is obviously resolved by latex2html 2002-2-1 (you possibly don't need to investigate further). I built a package which should be uploaded to the Debian archive (sid) as soon as the licensing issue (#204684) is resolved. You can al

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:43, Ross Moore wrote: > If someone has just copied other people's software, and has not even > provided installation routines, nor *anything at all* that adds value > to the collection more than the sum of the free pieces, then he/she > has no moral right to charg

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Ross, thanks for your detailed mail. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:12, Ross Moore wrote: [The latex2html license, main part:] > Use and copying of this software and the preparation of derivative > works based on this software are permitted, so long as the following > conditions are met: > > A The

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-15 Thread Roland Stigge
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:57, Torsten Bronger wrote: > > It being at least _possible_ to charge $200 is exactly what Debian > > requires from Free Software. Besides the GPL, please consider the > > LPPL or any other free license approved at > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/. > > The LPPL isn'

Re: [l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-15 Thread Roland Stigge
Hello Ross, thanks for your reply. On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 02:29, Ross Moore wrote: > Nikos has had nothing to do with the LaTeX2HTML software since > 1996 or so. > The license statement has not been changed since then. I wonder if (and fear that) any change to it would be needed to be supported b

[l2h] Maintenance of latex2html

2003-10-14 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, regarding the license issue, who's the current official maintainer of latex2html and/or responsible for licensing issues? I found different names: Nikos Drakos (author mentioned in LICENSE) Ross Moore (extended the package) Marek Rouchal (also listed in docs) John Turner (latex2html.org) Unf

Re: [l2h] latex2html non-free?

2003-10-14 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Henk, On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:27, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) wrote: > > The difference is that many distributions are not sold just for a > > nominal fee but for profit, like SuSE or RedHat. > > I still don't get it: > > * Debian considers the GPL a free license. The GPL allows people to >

Re: [l2h] latex2html non-free?

2003-10-14 Thread Roland Stigge
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:05, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/latex2html/copyright (by Nikos Drakos): > > > > [...] > > Use and copying of this software and the preparation of derivative > > works based on

[l2h] latex2html non-free?

2003-10-14 Thread Roland Stigge
tions, not just Debian. Thanks for considering. Roland Stigge Debian Project [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204684 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ latex2html mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]