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[hlx] Hyperlatex doesn't work with Emacs 23?

[Todd H. <he...@ae...>]

I cannot get Hyperlatex (2.9a) to work on Fedora 11 (with Emacs 23.1.1). 
The HTML output contains strange characters, and therefore does not display
properly.  The problem occurs with even the simplest input files--e.g.,

  \documentclass[12pt]{article}
  \usepackage{hyperlatex}
  \begin{document}
  This is a test.
  \end{document}

The complete HTML output from this input file is appended below.  It contains
several strange characters:

  "¼" (#c2bc) ...... appears instead of "<"
  "¾" (#c2be) ...... appears instead of ">"
  "¢" (#c2a2) ...... appears (sometimes) instead of a double quote
  "ü" (#c3bc)
  "î" (#c3ae)

Can anyone tell me what's going on here, or how to fix it?

For the record, the problem still occurs even with Hyperlatex 2.7.  But on
Fedora 10 (with Emacs 22.3.1) everything works fine--with either
Hyperlatex 2.7 or Hyperlatex 2.9a.

Thank you very much for any help you can give me.

Kind regards,

-- 
Todd Hesla
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota



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COMPLETE HTML OUTPUT:

¼?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?¾
¼!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"¾
¼html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"¾
¼!-- XML file produced from file: d.tex
     using Hyperlatex v 2.9-in-waiting-rk (oct06) (c) Otfried Cheong
     on Emacs 23.1.1, Fri Mar 19 17:02:32 2010 --¾
¼head¾
¼title¾Untitled¼/title¾

¼style type="text/css"¾
.maketitle { align : center }
div.abstract { margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 10%; }
h3.abstract  { align : center }
div.verse, div.quote, div.quotation {
  margin-left : 10%; 
  margin-right : 10%;
}
dt {font-weight: bold}
¼/style¾
ü
üüüü
¼/head¾
¼body¾
¼table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"¾¼tr¾
¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼a href=¢ü¢¾¼img border=¢0¢ alt=¢ü¢
src=¢icons/ünext.png¢/¾ü¼/a¾¼/td¾¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼img alt=¢¢
src=¢icons/üblank.png¢/¾¼/td¾¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼a href=¢ü¢¾¼img
border=¢0¢ alt=¢ü¢ src=¢icons/üprevious.png¢/¾ü¼/a¾¼/td¾¼td align="center"
bgcolor="#99ccff" width="100%"¾¼b¾Top¼/b¾ü¼/td¾ü¼/tr¾¼/table¾ü
¼p¾This is a test.
¼/p¾
üîî¼hr /¾ü¼address¾üî¼/address¾¼br /¾ü
¼table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"¾¼tr¾
¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼¼p¾a href=¢ü¢¾¼img border=¢0¢ alt=¢ü¢
src=¢icons/ünext.png¢/¾ü¼/a¾¼/td¾¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼img alt=¢¢
src=¢icons/üblank.png¢/¾¼/td¾¼td bgcolor="#99ccff"¾¼a href=¢ü¢¾¼img
border=¢0¢ alt=¢ü¢ src=¢icons/üprevious.png¢/¾ü¼/a¾¼/td¾¼td align="center"
bgcolor="#99ccff"
width="100%"¾¼b¾Top¼/b¾ü¼/td¾ü¼/tr¾¼/table¾üü¼/body¾¼/html¾
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Re: [hlx] Hyperlatex doesn't work with Emacs 23?

[tom s. <to...@as...>]

Hi Todd:

The issue is the change in the way emacs supports multi-byte text
between versions 22 and 23.  This change is, I'm afraid, a direct
assault on the way that hyperlatex processes text.  During the parsing
process, hlx changes some latex commands into single byte magic
characters so they'll survive the parsing unmolested.  For example, the
"<" (0x3c) in html tags is converted to an unprintable 0xbc so it won't
be confused with an actual "<".  The final step involves converting
these magic characters back to their printable originals for output.

This strategy is now out of bounds, as I understand it, since 0xbc now
has a meaning that it didn't in version 22.  I have great confidence in
the emacs developers to have thought of a way to create some kind of
backwards compatibility or configuration option to continue to allow the
kind of tricks that hyperlatex is built on.  Sadly, I don't know my way
around those options, nor am I sure that such a workaround wouldn't
disable the possibility of hlx supporting multi-byte text itself, as is
now true of the leading versions of TeX itself.

 -tom

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Re: [hlx] Hyperlatex doesn't work with Emacs 23?

[Roland S. <st...@an...>]

tom sgouros wrote:
> This strategy is now out of bounds, as I understand it, since 0xbc now
> has a meaning that it didn't in version 22.  I have great confidence in
> the emacs developers to have thought of a way to create some kind of
> backwards compatibility or configuration option to continue to allow the
> kind of tricks that hyperlatex is built on.  Sadly, I don't know my way
> around those options, nor am I sure that such a workaround wouldn't
> disable the possibility of hlx supporting multi-byte text itself, as is
> now true of the leading versions of TeX itself.

At least, emacs --no-multibyte doesn't fix it for us at Debian where we
try to compile hyperlatex' documentation and other files.

If anyone has got another solution, please tell. It seems to apply to
all distributions now.

Thanks!

bye,
  Roland