Re: htlatex?? in docs/Makefile.in in cvs source ( 2010-02-11)

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 11 February 2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I could not make the html documents from latex in cvs source ( 2010-02-11) on cygwin
> 
> $ CC='gcc-4 -shared-libgcc' CXX='g++-4 -shared-libgcc' CFLAGS='-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer' CXXFLAGS='-O3
> -fomit-frame-pointer' make html
> rm -f VERSION; ln -s ../VERSION .
> htlatex gnuplot
> make: htlatex: Command not found
> make: *** [htmldocs/gnuplot.html] Error 127
> 
> I have a look into docs/Makefile.in
> 
> # requires a working latex2html, which is hard to find these days
> # htmldocs/gnuplot.html: $(srcdir)/gnuplot.tex
> #	mkdir -p htmldocs
> #	latex2html -dir htmldocs -local_icons gnuplot
> 
> htmldocs/gnuplot.html: $(srcdir)/gnuplot.dvi
> 	rm -f VERSION; ln -s ../VERSION .
> 	htlatex gnuplot
> 	mkdir -p htmldocs
> 	mv gnuplot.html gnuplot.css gnuplot*.png gnuplot.log htmldocs/
> 
> It seemed that latex2html is disabled but one has to use htlatex.
> 
> I have googled htlatex but good information have not been obtained yet. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Meanwhile I am using latex2html until I will be able to use htlatex.

For me latex2html no longer works.  See for instance the recent bug
report  
  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2949058&group_id=2055&atid=102055

Latex2html has been unsupported since 2001 (9 years ago).
I have tried various possible replacements, but htlatex is the first
one I have found that actually works.

If you have a different tool chain that works, by all means use it.
I don't really expect that every user will need to make the html
documentation or the html version of the demos, so I think it is
OK if the Makefiles require a bit of local customization.

	Ethan



> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> 
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