Bad manuals

[MJ Ray]

After prompting on the newsgroups, I've noticed that I can't build the
plucker manuals.  This is because they are in latex but use some
packages that aren't in tetex, most notably html, but also because
they want to use latex2html instead of tex4ht (ht latex).

Briefly, tetex is the largest standard tex distribution, so I'm
slightly surprised that it's using things not found there.  Also,
tex4ht uses the latex formatting engine to generate html while
latex2html reimplements a subset of it in another language.

I suggest that the manuals are moved to use tex4ht and hopefully
remain compatible with building with latex2html.  If no-one is able, I
will make a start, but it may be some time.  But first I wanted to
ask, is there a strong reason why latex2html is used?
-- 
MJR

Re: Bad manuals

[David A. Desrosiers]

> I suggest that the manuals are moved to use tex4ht and hopefully remain
> compatible with building with latex2html.  If no-one is able, I will make
> a start, but it may be some time.  But first I wanted to ask, is there a
> strong reason why latex2html is used?

I believe this was done because the original author of those manuals,
Alexander, uses OS/2, and I'm not sure if 'ht' is ported to OS/2. We have to
make sure we maintain cross-platform compatibility here. We can't break
existing interfaces.

Alexander, can you comment?


/d

Re: Bad manuals

[MJ Ray]

"David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Alexander, can you comment?

Alexander has emailed me off-list to say that it was because tex4ht
doesn't exist for OS/2 at the time it was written.  He also gave me
lots of other useful comments.  Can someone tell me what tex4ht
availability is like on other platforms now?

Also, is the "hyperref" package available on other platforms and tex
distributions?  Most importantly, miktex on windows, emTeX on OS/2,
OzTeX (or whatever is the standard now) on Mac and 4allTex on DOS.

Thanks,
-- 
MJR

bug processing the

[hermann griebel]

hi 2 all ;-)

looking to the result of the conversion of "the hacker guide" i saw 
the complete 

Re: bug processing the

[David A. Desrosiers]

> looking to the result of the conversion of "the hacker guide" i saw the
> complete  tag in my palm (the *.pdb file)

Looking at the page you've gathered, kap01.htm, the style tags in the
original webpage are malformed, they show: