It seems that texlive contains an outdated package. I copied 4ht files from the svn and everything is fine now.
2012/10/23 Radhakrishnan CV <c...@river-valley.org> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Oleg Domanov <odoma...@yandex.ru> wrote: > >> Strange, you have a newer version of tex4ht. I installed mine from >> texlive 2012 repo. Is it not enought? This used to work quite well for me. > > > Mine should be the current, I used to update everyday from svn. But, I > don't think that could be the reason. Let us ask somebody else to test your > MWE, maybe, Karl can help us. > > Best > > -- > Radhakrishnan >