Re: [hlx] \image and ps2image

[Ralf H. <hem...@ri...>]

Hello Jay,

> It would be easy enough to have ps2image create the necessary
> directory, but another problem is that file.ps will be created as
> ./dir/file.ps.  This would occur (in texfile.makeimage) before 
> ps2image is called, and if htmldirectory isn't ".", then the png file
> will be htmldir/dir/file.png.  So both directories ./dir and
> htmldir/dir would have to exist.  It would be nice if file.ps were just
> ./file.ps, but the ps file name is made by TeX based on the image name
> dir/file, and I don't know how to (reasonably) strip off the directory
> name in TeX.

Well, so let us convince the \endimage macro to generate only the 
filename (file.ps) instead of (dir/file.ps).

I have not incorporated it locally into my hyperlatex.sty but as you can 
see from the attachment, it should be enough to replace the line

\jobname.dvi\space>\space\im...@na...^^J%

in the \endimage macro by

\jobname.dvi\space>\space\strip{\im...@na...}^^J%

(of course after placing the \strip macro somewhere into the code).

Whether you include the .ps or write it behind } does not matter.
The only restriction of my \strip macro is, that filenames (including 
dirs) should not contain a semicolon (;) right after a slash (/). (I 
don't think that is a big restriction.)

Ah, and don't forget to convince ps2image to remove this temporary .ps file.

Hope that helps

Ralf

BTW, I still somehow favour an environment where I don't have to give a 
filename argument.