[l2h] Re: latex2html digest, Vol 1 #181 - 3 msgs

[R. Sankaran]

I too, it is serious - latex2html???????????????/???????

Joao Ferreira wrote:

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> >    1. Index entries include trailing format specifications
> >        such as '|textbf' (Julius Smith)
> >    2. AGENTS WANTED ! (Motortyme Oy)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:09:45 -0800
> > To: latex2html@tug.org
> > From: Julius Smith <jos@w3k.org>
> > Subject: [l2h] Index entries include trailing format specifications
> >   such as '|textbf'
> >
> > I discovered that index entries including a format specification, such as
> >
> >         keyword\index{keyword|textbf}
> >
> > produce keys in the HTML index including the format spec, i.e.,
> > "keyword|textbf" appears in the final Index.html entries generated by
> > latex2html.  This problem does not appear to occur when the makeidx package
> > is used (invoking styles/makeidx.perl).  Below is a one-line fix that works
> > in all cases I have tested:
> >
> > *** latex2html~ Fri Sep 28 14:17:52 2001
> > --- latex2html  Sun Oct 28 12:30:44 2001
> > ***************
> > *** 8322,8327 ****
> > --- 8322,8328 ----
> >         }
> >         $str = $current[$#current];
> >         $str =~ s/\#\#\#\d+$//o; # Remove the unique id's
> > +       $str =~ s/\|(.*)$//; # Remove any trailing macro wrapper spec (NEW)
> >         $index .= $index{$key} .
> >             # If it's the same string don't start a new line
> >             (&index_key_eq(join('',@current), join('',@previous)) ?
> > --------------------
> >
> > Note that page 154 of Lamport (1994) gives some "fine print" about the
> > behavior of '|' in an index entry.  E.g., it can be quoted by a preceding
> > `"' unless the `"' is preceded by `\'.  Since this fine print does not seem
> > to be supported for `!', I didn't try to add it here.  Due to prior
> > transformations on the index key strings, it would take         a bit of research
> > to get this right.
> >
> > Julius
> >
> > --__--__--
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> > Message: 2
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> > From: "Motortyme Oy" <w2222@saunalahti.fi>
> > To: "latex2html@tug.org" <latex2html@tug.org>
> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:21:31 +0200
> > Subject: [l2h] AGENTS WANTED !
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