On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:49:17PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:06:16PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > > > > >> I've added two scripts: a dir_copy.py script, that simply copies the > >> entire temporary directory over to a subdirectory of the intended output > >> directory, and a tex4html_copy.py script that copies only .png, .html, > >> and .css files, these (I'm pretty sure) being the only kinds of files > >> generated by htlatex. What happens, in the end, then, is that if you > >> open /path/to/file/LyXFile.lyx and do File>Export>HTML, then you end up > >> with a (possibly new) directory /path/to/file/LyXFile.html.LyXconv/ and > >> all the relevant files are in there. Rather, say, than scattered across > >> /path/to/file/, which would make it a hassle then to move them to a > >> webserver. > >> > > When the html converter is not htlatex, why don't you simply take a > > snapshot of the files that are in the temp dir just before calling the > > converter, put their names in a file, say "FilesToNotBeCopied", and > > then use a html_copy.py script that copies only those files that are > > not listed in "FilesToNotBeCopied"? > > > Yes, we discussed this before, and I thought about that, but there are > two problems. One is that we don't know that none of the files that are > generated by the HTML converter over-write files that are already > present. I don't know that this would be a common problem, but it's > possible. I had proposed trying to check the timestamps to avoid this > problem, but that turned out to be useless, because of the granularity > of the timestamps.
On POSIX systems the granularity is 1 second, on Windows with FAT it is 2 seconds. So, what about creating a file, taking its timestamp, waiting for 2 seconds and then calling the converter? > The other is that it involves messing with > Converters.cpp, which is what I was kind of trying not to do. And we > don't want to check there what the converter is, so we'd have to > generate this file all the time. I guess there could be a special flag > for that, but that just seems so messy. The better solution would be for > me to find out what latex2html generates, then write a special script > for it. This is wrong, as you also have to take into account tth, hevea and I am sure that an user could use some other converter that you don't know about. > > You may also want to check if one of the `files' created by the > > converter is instead a directory and properly copy that, too. > > > I'll add that to the dir_copy.py program. It actually means I can just > use copytree(), so everything gets simpler. Yes, simpler, but this way you are going to copy a lot of trash and I am not sure that a casual user is able to sort out the mess. -- Enrico
