Hello James, On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, James Howison wrote:
> Howdy all, > > Is there an automatic way to include links to local copies of the > source (e.g. *.tex and *.bib) files in the output? > > Ideally I would like there to be a section in the 'About this document' > section which has links to copies of the specified source files. At > the moment I've been copying the non-standard files in by hand and hand > editing the html. > > I notice that the "The command line arguments were:" includes a > hyperlink for the *.tex file that appears to be linked to the path of > the *.tex file used - this is a start but I'd really like this to be > pointing to a copy of the tex file that is automatically moved into the > output folder. Better is to make a symbolic link in the target directory, pointing to the source .tex file. Then make the hyperlink point at this link. That way you don't need to keep 2 files up-to-date. Also, if you want your audience to view the source files in a web-browser, then the link can have .txt as its extension, rather than .tex or .bib which most surfer's browsers will not understand as being text-only. As for automating creating of such links, this isn't really necessary, as that's a one-off thing for each job. Normally you can expect to process a LaTeX2HTML job many times, before being fully satisfied with the HTML pages, just as you would run a LaTeX job many times during development. But once the link to the sources has been created, you don't need to remake it each time. > > Is this possible already? Are there people working on something > similar? Where should I start if I where to try to automate this? > Would it make sense to build this in as a commandline option or would > it be better to have a stand alone utility to run post latex2html? > > Thanks, > James > > ps - In some circumstances it would be very cool to also be able to > provide the style and bibliography style files - we might even be able > to include anything 'pulled' in by the *.tex file. It might be a bit > complicated but I'd like it to be such that anyone with a basically > sane install could run the commandline specified and re-create the site. Isn't it best then to create an archive (.zip or .tgz) with all the pieces and create a simple link to this, for downloading? Hope this helps, Ross Moore > > _______________________________________________ > latex2html mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html > _______________________________________________ latex2html mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html