Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#30270 closed defect (fixed)

texlive-htmlxml: missing xhtex

Reported by: akimd (Akim Demaille) Owned by: drkp (Dan Ports)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port: texlive-htmlxml

Description

At least one script is missing for everything to go smoothly with tex4ht. This script is used with the mouseover option. There is a Debian bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=118090) that describes the same issue (for Debian).

If you run the very same test file, you get the same error because xhtex is not included in the distro:

[...]
Searching `lm-rep-cmrm.htf' for `cmr10.htf'
(/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/lm/lm-rep-cmrm.htf)
[1 file foo.html
 file foo.css
 file foo.tmp
 file foo2.html
 file foo1.tmp
] [2]
Execute script `foo.lg'
----------------------------
t4ht.c (2009-01-31-07:34 kpathsea)
t4ht -f/foo.tex 
(/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env)
Entering foo.lg
Entering foo.css
Entering foo.tmp
System call: xhtex foo-js
sh: xhtex: command not found
--- Warning --- System return: 32512

I have found a copy of such a file on the Internet, and I confirm that, provided this file is in the PATH, then mouseover _does_ work.

Cheers!

Attachments (2)

foo.tex (320 bytes) - added by akimd (Akim Demaille) 13 years ago.
LaTeX test file, run htlatex foo.tex "html,mouseover"
xhtex (987 bytes) - added by akimd (Akim Demaille) 13 years ago.
xhtex (found in http://www.coursehero.com/external.php?db_filename=3279512&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftorus.math.uiuc.edu%2Fjms%2Ftex2mathml%2Ftex4ht%2Fdoc%2Fshare%2Fxhtex.txt)

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Change History (8)

Changed 13 years ago by akimd (Akim Demaille)

Attachment: foo.tex added

LaTeX test file, run htlatex foo.tex "html,mouseover"

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: dports@… removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to dports@…

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Status: newassigned

This is also the case in TL2011 (which I am testing)

xhtex does not seem to be included in TeX Live. I'll look into whether it ought to be included in this port, or perhaps some other.

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by akimd (Akim Demaille)

I expect that there are other such scripts. I agree there are too many :( so I can understand that TeXLive people don't want to ship them. But as is, the distro is borken.

Maybe these scripts (many of which are used internally) should be moved in a non-PATH place, and the drivers should just change their PATHs when they need it.

Alternatively, all these scripts are extremely alike and very little change from one another, so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to change all them into a single script with options. But that's more a job for the new maintainers of tex4ht, agreed...

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

I spent an embarassingly long time trying to figure out where these files come from (as you probably noticed, they're surprisingly hard to find online, presumably because the original maintainer died), and then realized that they're actually in the texlive source, they just don't get installed for some reason. Still trying to figure out what's going on...

comment:5 in reply to:  4 Changed 13 years ago by akimd (Akim Demaille)

Replying to dports@…:

spent an embarassingly long time

It's amazing how TeX can sometimes be a time sink.

trying to figure out where these files come from (as you probably noticed, they're surprisingly hard to find online, presumably because the original maintainer died),

Yes; this is unfortunate, he was a kind person and he was quick to fix issues in tex4ht. But TUG people such as Karl Berry took over the maintenance (http://gna.org/projects/tex4ht and http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/)

and then realized that they're actually in the texlive source, they just don't get installed for some reason. Still trying to figure out what's going on...

Thanks for the good work!

comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

This should be fixed in r89945. Let me know if you run into other problems; I haven't tested tex4ht extensively.

Sorry it took so long!

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