> i've been hacking latex2html's source code (version 2002-2-1) about a > bit (just to make it do what i want), and am going to try turning some > what i've done into useful patches. it looks to me as if some of the > files in versions/html*.pl are obsolete: if i could have that > confirmed/denied, then i could be sure i'm preparing patches for just > the relevant files. > > specifically ... > > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 20274 Jul 11 1999 versions/html2_1.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 7704 Sep 27 06:15 versions/html2_2.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 2666 Jun 6 1997 versions/html3_0.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 87056 Sep 17 1999 versions/html3_1.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 47036 Apr 13 2002 versions/html3_2.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 60307 Apr 13 2002 versions/html4_0.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 60964 Apr 13 2002 versions/html4_01.pl > -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 60964 Aug 21 2002 versions/html4_1.pl > > > a) it appears that these are never used: > > html2_1.pl html2_2.pl html3_1.pl
Correct, insofar as HTML versions 1, 2.1, and 2.2 are never used anymore, having been superseded long ago by HTML 3.2 and 4.x . Similarly 3.1 is out-dated, implementing <MATH> tags that never got universal acceptance. > > b) html4_01.pl and html4_1.pl are identical to one another. > > html4_01.pl is never used, because if you say `-html_version 4.01', > the code rounds 4.01 to 4.0 so you get the same result as if you'd > said `-html_version 4.0'. i'd guess that the idea behind html4_1.pl > is to let the user say `-html_version 4.1' when they want HTML 4.01 > (this doesn't quite work, because the DOCTYPE mentions 4.1). Yeah, that was the idea. OK, so there needs to be a small patch to get the DOCTYPE correct. > _if_ i have all that right, then the best course of action would be > to stop the code rounding 4.01 to 4.0, and delete html4_1.pl. The same trick was used with 3_1 really being 3.01 (I think). For compatibility with any existing documents or scripts calling LaTeX2HTML, it would be best to catch 4_1 and make it 4.01 where needed, as well as stopping the rounding. There is no future compatibility problem, as the W3C have effectively frozen HTML at 4.01 --- as far as I can recall. Future development is in XHTML and XML. > > thanks in advance for any guidance. Hope this helps, Ross Moore > -- > Phil Lanch > _______________________________________________ > latex2html mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html _______________________________________________ latex2html mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html