#35 Installation procedure on Windows is wrong

[fussel4711]

Hello,

you can't get dblatex run on Windows when installing dblatex as described in the User Manual. The first problem is that the entire directory "tex4ht" of the Miktex installation must be copied to "C:\" some paths in Miktex point to that directory.

The bigger problem is that you will get the following console output when you try to create a document:
C:\Workspaces\Eclipse\ATEGlossary>latex -P \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HChar}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expandafter\Link\fi}\def\Link#1.a.b.c.{\g@addto@macro\@documentclasshook{\RequirePackage[#1,xhtml,docbook]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle\HCode\expandafter\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,xhtml,docbook}\def\HCode####1{\documentstyle[tex4ht,}\@ifnextchar[{\HCode}{\documentstyle[tex4ht]}}}\makeatother\HCode pdf.a.b.c.\input -t
[exec] latex: Invalid command-line option
[exec] C:\Workspaces\Eclipse\ATEGlossary>latex -P \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HChar}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expandafter\Link\fi}\def\Link#1.a.b.c.{\g@addto@macro\@documentclasshook{\RequirePackage[#1,xhtml,docbook]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle\HCode\expandafter\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,xhtml,docbook}\def\HCode####1{\documentstyle[tex4ht,}\@ifnextchar[{\HCode}{\documentstyle[tex4ht]}}}\makeatother\HCode pdf.a.b.c.\input -t
[exec] latex: Invalid command-line option
[exec] C:\Workspaces\Eclipse\ATEGlossary>latex -P \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HChar}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expandafter\Link\fi}\def\Link#1.a.b.c.{\g@addto@macro\@documentclasshook{\RequirePackage[#1,xhtml,docbook]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle\HCode\expandafter\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,xhtml,docbook}\def\HCode####1{\documentstyle[tex4ht,}\@ifnextchar[{\HCode}{\documentstyle[tex4ht]}}}\makeatother\HCode pdf.a.b.c.\input -t
[exec] latex: Invalid command-line option
[exec] C:\Workspaces\Eclipse\ATEGlossary>tex4ht \dirchar -t -ic:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\ht-fonts\-T -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env -cunihtf
[exec] --- warning --- Problem with command line
[exec] ----------------------------
[exec] --- error --- Can't find/open file `\dirchar.dvi'
[exec] tex4ht.c (2006-09-13-14:27 Windows MiKTeX)
[exec] tex4ht \dirchar
[exec] -t
[exec] -ic:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\ht-fonts\-T
[exec] -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env
[exec] -cunihtf
[exec] C:\Workspaces\Eclipse\ATEGlossary>t4ht \dirchar -t db2latex -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env -cvalidate -cdocbk
[exec] ----------------------------
[exec] t4ht.c (2007-01-05-03:17 Windows MiKTeX)
[exec] --- error ---
[exec] t4ht \dirchar
[exec] --------------------------------------------------------------------
[exec] t4ht [-f<dir char>]filename ...
[exec] -b ignore -d -m -M for bitmaps
[exec] -t
[exec] -c... choose named segment in env file
[exec] db2latex
[exec] -d... directory for output files (default: current)
[exec] -ec:\tex4ht\texmf\tex4ht\base\win32\tex4ht.env
[exec] -e... location of tex4ht.env
[exec] -cvalidate
[exec] -i debugging info
[exec] -m... chmod ... of new output files (reused bitmaps excluded)
[exec] -p don't convert pictures (default: convert)
[exec] -r replace bitmaps of all glyphs (default: reuse old ones)
[exec] -M... chmod ... of all output files
[exec] -S... permission for system calls: *-always, filter
[exec] -X... content for field %3 in X scripts
[exec] -.... content for field %2 in . scripts
[exec] Example:
[exec] t4ht name -d/WWW/temp/ -etex4ht-32.env -m644
[exec] --------------------------------------------------------------------
[exec] -cdocbk
[exec] Result: 1

Thanks

Mike

[fussel4711]

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