[l2h] Fw: latex2html on windows: How to tell it NOT to use the ALT attribute for the <IMG> tage? tex2html_comment_mark problem

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

I posted this on the comp.test.tex then I found about this maling list, so I 
am posting this here. May be I can get help.

Please let me know if you need any more information about this.


> Hello
>
> After spending 2 days of configuration blues on windows to get latex2html 
> to finally generate images, I have one final problem to solve to get the 
> whole thing working.
>
> The problem now is the following:
>
> When latex2html runs and generate the html document, for every image (it 
> converts each equation and symbol to an image), it includes in the image 
> itself the following
>
> <tex2html_commet_mark>NUMBER  followed by a number which seems to be a 
> counter as it increases for each image.
>
> So all the equations look like something as follows
>
>                  <tex2html_commet_mark> 99                 3 x + y
>                  <tex2html_commet_mark> 100               2 x etc....
>
> I was able to get rid of the   "tex2html_commet_mark" part, but the 
> counters I can get rid of (the numbers above 99,100, etc...)  , so now the 
> equations look like
>
>                  < > 99                 3 x + y
>                  < > 100               2 x etc....
>
> I edited the file latex2html.pin and replaced the line
>
> $comment_mark = '<tex2html_comment_mark>';
>
> with this:
>
> $comment_mark = '<> ';
>
> Clearly this is half a fix, as I need to remove all of this ALT stuff from 
> the images themselves.
>
> The problem is that those $comment_mark are part of the image itself, and 
> are also in the ALT= tag in the html as well.  So, the I need to find out 
> how to remove them before the images themselves are processed.
>
> Any one else faced this problem with latex2html?
>
> I am using
>
> C:\LATEX\latex2html-2008>latex2html -v
> $* is no longer supported at latex2html.bat line 10607.
> This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71)
> by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
>
> I know very little perl to attempt to hack the latex2html.bin more than 
> the above. I searched google.
>
> thank you for any hints.
>
> --Nasser
>