[hlx] Hyperlatex 2.7 on Emacs 21.3.50.1 on Mac OS X 10.3... not?

[Uli W. <ul...@sl...>]

I have been using Hyperlatex 2.5 on Emacs 18.59 on Mac OS 8.6 for 
years. Now I switched to Mac OS X and am running Andrew Choi's Emacs 
21.3.50 and am trying to get Hyperlatex 2.7 to work.

The way I am using HL is from within Emacs, i.e. I am editing my source 
file and then say hyperlatex-format-buffer to compile the source into 
html. This always worked in my previous setup.

Doing as preescribed in the head of hyperlatex.el I get the autoload to 
work, i.e. hyperlatex-format-buffer starts up. However, trying to 
compile the manual it hangs when it hits \htmlpanelfield{}. Moreover, 
it does not find *any* of the packages it wants to load. The failure to 
load packages is where I am mystified: I have left hyperlatex.el where 
it is in the distro (hlx folder in Hyperlatex-2.7 folder) and moved the 
whole thing into the Emacs directory where Emacs also resides.

Here is the error I get:
----------------------------
Parsing ...
Package "siteinit" not found...
Package "init" not found...
Package "article" not found...
Package "verbatim" not found...
Package "longtable" not found...
Package "makeidx" not found...
Package "frames" not found...
Package "simplepanels" not found...

Hyperlatex ERROR: Unknown command: htmlpanelfield
Hint: Try running Latex, it may give a better error message.

Error discovered here:
 >>>{Contents}{hlxcontents}
\htmlpanelfield{Index}{hlxindex}
------------------------------------

My hyperlatex-extension-dirs variable looks like this 
(describe-variable):

hyperlatex-extension-dirs's value is
("~/" "/Applications/Emacs/Hyperlatex-2.7/hlx")

which is as intended, and most packages are in the 2nd directory, 
specifically site-init, longtable, ....
I assume the htmlpanelfield fails because it is def'd in a local 
package that is not found.

Any help would be appreciated.

Uli Wienands