URL:
http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?208
Summary: lit/Makefile has extra space in latex argument
confusing MikTeX latex
Project: tex4ht
Submitted by: vincentb1
Submitted on: lun. 03 mars 2014 00:11:12 EET
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
In lit/Makefile we have these lines:
tex_opts = --interaction=nonstopmode #--file-line-error
tex_1opt = $(tex_opts)
This means that the argument passed e.g. to htlatex.bat is (with added
delimitting by `and ') the following
`--interaction=nonstopmode '
i.e. there is one tailing space just after the nonstopmode.
This confuses latex (as called by htlatex.bat) which outputs the following
error message
latex: Invalid option argument.
latex: Data: nonstopmode
latex: Invalid option argument.
latex: Data: nonstopmode
latex: Invalid option argument.
latex: Data: nonstopmode
I.e. latex does not know `nonstopmode ', but only `nonstopmode'.
The root cause for the problem is that when passing argument to a MSDOS batch,
the argument is not de-quoted. That is to say, assume that I have some batch
toto.bat as follows
some_exe.exe %1
and I call
toto.bat a b c
Then %1 will expand to a b c, and therefore the command some_exe.exe will be
passed only one argument that is `a b c', instead of 3 arguments a, b and c,
which is the intention.
This means that the patch which I propose as attached is not really a
definitive solution --- if ever there would be more than one option, that
would not work any longer. Instead, to follow the intention of tex_1opt
Makefile variable double-quoting in order to pass several options just as one
argument, one needs in htlatex.bat some explicit code in order to do the
de-quoting --- that would by the same way solve the tailing space issue, so
the same lit/Makefile as currently could be reverted.
I will try to propose this in another post, I need some more thinking how to
do that in MSDOS --- if ever feasible, DOS is no longer maintained, and quite
unpractical a language.
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