[l2h] Black bars under integral signs when thelimitsof integration are -\infty and +\infty or analgebraicfraction for each of the upper and lower limits
Pat Somerville
l_pat_s at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 13 20:47:44 CEST 2011
In my request earlier in this chain of e-mail letters that LaTeX2HTML users
perform the \int\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty} experiment for me, I would like
to add to my list of requested users' installed software packages:
the operating system of the user,
the version of the Perl interpreter installed (obtainable via the command
"perl -v" in a Linux operating system),
and the versions of TeX Live (texlive) and texlive-latex installed [The
Linux command "tex -v" or "tex live -v" may be one way to obtain the version
of TeX Live. In my case in an OpenSUSE-11.3, Linux operating system in Yet
another Software Tool 2 (YaST2) I could under "Software Management" enter
"texlive" in a search of installed software packages; select texlive from
the cases found; and then click on the "Technical" or "Technical data" tab
to see the version information for texlive. Then by clicking on
"texlive-latex" and then on the "Technical" or "Technical data" tab I could
see the version date for its installed version.)
My data for these things are presently for texlive and texlive-latex
"2009-12.11--noarch from openSUSE-11.3-1.82 with priority 99 and vendor
openSUSE." And the command "tex live -v" resulted in "This is TeX, Version
3.1415926 (Tex Live 2009/openSUSE) ! I can't find 'live.' " And the version
of my Linux operating system is OpenSUSE 11.3, or perhaps in more detail
11.3-1.82.
With much ignorance on my part of the internal workings of the various
computer codes a strategy could be to search among the data from people who
don't have the unwanted black line segment under the .html equivalent of
\int\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty} for a common version of a program which I
don't have installed. Then I could consider the version of that
corresponding program that I do have installed suspect in causing the
unwanted, horizontal, black line segment.
To replace the suspect program a conservative approach could be to first
back up one's hard-disk drive and then replace all of the "Base" and
"Utilities" components of "TeX Live" with a version of the same program in
which the unwanted black line segment did not appear for another user. But
YaST2 appears to do a good job at "keeping track" of the dependencies of one
computer code on another (I think the Yellow-dog Update Manager [YUM] may
perform some functions similar to YaST2 in one or more other distributions
of a Linux operating system.). So a less conservative approach at software
replacement could be to replace just the suspect program within a larger
package of programs and let YaST2 make the necessary dependency
adjustments.---And making those dependency adjustments might require being
online. However, there might be a problem with this approach, for example
if the OpenSUSE-11.3 repositories don't have a desired older version of a
computer program available for downloading. Beyond that if the older
version of a program is obtained from outside an OpenSUSE-11.3 repository,
one could just hope that YaST2 would be designed intelligently enough to
detect dependency problems and help a user with obtaining and making the
necessary dependency replacements. YaST2 appears to be pretty good!
Perhaps it might be able to do or help with those sorts of things.
Also I could be switching to OpenSUSE 11.4 Linux within some weeks.
However, to keep the number of variables from becoming too large, I think it
would be logical to if possible eliminate the unwanted black line segments
at the bottoms of some .png (Portable Network Graphics) images before making
that switch.
But the best approach of all would be to have the suspect code in the
suspect program delimited and fixed or made compatible with the other
computer programs with which it must able to work. Perhaps the more data I
provide on my own relevant computer software and its use, the more likely an
expert on one or more of the programs can guess in which one of them there
could be a problem or else a problem of incompatibility with the other
computer programs it requires to run well. I provided some data on my
relevant computer software and from some experiments I executed. Here I
write "Thank you" to anyone trying to help me.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:08 AM
To: <latex2html at tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] Black bars under integral signs when thelimitsofintegrationare -\infty and +\infty or analgebraicfraction for each of the upper and
lower limits
> Here is more information on this issue of unwanted black line segments
> under especially the .html equivalent of a portion of the LaTeX command
> \in\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty}. For LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML use currently I
> am using an OpenSUSE-11.3 Linux operating system; LaTeX2e of September 24,
> 2009; LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71); Netpbm 10.35.74-2.21.i586 (Netpbm
> 10.35.74 compiled on July 5, 2010); and, according to the LaTeX2HTML
> output, dvips(k) 5.98 of the year 2009.
>
> 1) My test LaTeX file Throwaway7.tex contained a portion of a LaTeX
> command that was close to \int\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty}. The command
> "latex Throwaway7.tex" produced the file Throwaway7.dvi. After opening
> that .dvi file with the program Okular there was no black line segment
> underlining the integral sign and its limits. So this prompts a
> conceivable workaround solution that ought to work to produce the integral
> sign and its limits without the undesirable black line segment in a .html
> file using LaTeX2HTML:
>
> Conceivable workaround solution A
>
> a) Print onto paper the page of the .dvi file containing the desired
> mathematical expression without an unwanted black line segment underlining
> it.
>
> b) Scan that piece of paper with a scanner. For the scanner program used
> with my scanner unfortunately .png (Portable Network Graphics) is not
> among the available choices of formats for scanned files; however, even if
> I could produce a .png document with my scanning program, I would not know
> how to make LaTeX2HTML use it as a portion of an equation. So instead I
> could choose the Mult-Tagged Image File Format, .tif file for the scanned
> file and in the next step work with it.
>
> c) With the Gnu Not Unix (GNU) Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.6.8 I
> could conceivably convert the .tif file to an Encapsulated PostScript
> (.eps) file suitable for use as a figure in a .tex, LaTeX document.
>
> d) Run latex and latex2html.... commands on the resulting .tex file to
> produce mathematical expressions without the undesired black line segments
> under some of them.
>
> Conceivable workaround solution B
>
> In the .tex file define $a=-\infty$ and $b=+\infty$. Then in the equation
> for normally \int\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty} instead use \int\limits
> _{a}^{b}.
>
> 2) Some old solutions to eliminating unwanted, black line segments which
> unfortunately failed for me this time in an OpenSUSE-11.3, Linux operating
> system using LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71):
>
> a) In the file /usr/lib/latex2html/l2hconf.pm with the line $DVIPSOPT
> .=" -Pdpf" already commented out with a # in front of it, as suggested by
> Shigeharu Takeno in at least August of 2009, also commenting out the line
> $DVIPSOPT = ' -Ppdf -E'; .
>
> b) Running eqnfix.sh from http://www.vyvy.org/main/en/node/102 on the
> Internet with a command like this: "./eqnfix.sh Directory" in the
> directory above "Directory" to generate new and/or fixed .png images in
> the directory called "Directory."
>
> I think that probably each of these methods "a" and "b" was successful in
> eliminating some undesired, vertical, black line segments in .png images
> in the year 2009 for me in an openSuSE-11.1 Linux operating system using
> probably LaTeX2HTML 1.70.
>
> 3) I experimented with using small font sizes for the limits of
> integration of positive and negative infinity, like for example this:
> \int\limits _{\mbox{\fontsize{1}{1}\selectfont
> $-\infty$}}^{\mbox{\fontsize{1}{1}\selectfont $+\infty$}}. But doing that
> did not eliminate the unwanted black line segment underneath the integral
> sign. However, interestingly changing the upper limit to a digit like 0
> or 1 did eliminate the unwanted black line segment under the integral
> sign. But having 0 as the upper limit of integration is not what one would
> normally want when the upper limit is supposed to be positive infinity.
> One could probably write the equivalent of "-infinity integral to +
> infinity" instead as "-infinity integral to 0" minus "+infinity integral
> to 0". But I would like to avoid eliminating the unwanted black line
> segments in that perhaps awkward-looking way.
>
> 4) It might be useful for some other people to try this experiment in a
> test LaTeX file called, say Test.tex:
>
> \begin{equation}
> \int\limits _{-\infty}^{\infty}
> \end{equation}
>
> , and then to issue the commands "latex Test.tex" and "latex2html
> nonavigation -no_math -html version 3.2,math -split 0 Test.tex". Then in
> the resulting output file Test.html if there is no unwanted black line
> segment under the resulting integral sign, please report to us the
> versions of the following software packages you used:
>
> Netpbm (For example obtain its version via the command "netpbm -version"
> or "Netpbm -version" in a Linux operating system.)
> dvips (Please look at the output after a latex2html command for the
> version of dvips you are using.)
> LaTeX2HTML (Please look at the output after a latex2html command for the
> version of LaTeX2HTML you are using.)
>
> and what form of the command $DVIPSOPT... is uncommented out, if any, and
> what values there are for the commands $MATH_SCALE_FACTOR=... and
> $DISP_SCALE_FACTOR=..in your file l2hconf.pm, which in my OpenSUSE-11.3,
> Linux operating system appears in the directory /usr/lib/latex2html.
> Perhaps there is some modern combination of software in which the unwanted
> black line segment does not appear under the integral sign and its limits.
> Or else if someone has a working solution to avoid the problem of the
> unwanted horizontal line segment, I would like to know what it is and what
> the details of your software environment are.
>
> Pat
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:24 AM
> To: <latex2html at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [l2h] Black bars under integral signs when the
> limitsofintegrationare -\infty and +\infty or an algebraicfraction for
> each of the upper and lower limits
>
>> Thanks, JOS, for kindly taking the time to reply to me. Did you find
>> your
>> workaround solutions to eliminate unwanted black line segments to work in
>> a
>> version of LaTeX2HTML different from the one I am using? I tried the two
>> workaround solutions you mentioned with LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71):
>>
>> 1) $DVIPSOPT = ' '; in the file /usr/lib/latex2html/l2hconf.pm in place
>> of
>> $DVIPSOPT .= " -E"; ;
>>
>> 2) Including the line "transform round exch round exch itransform" right
>> after the line "gsave newpath" in the file
>> /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config/alt-rule.pro [The path for the file
>> alt-rule.pro
>> is slightly different in LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71) than the path
>> mentioned within the version of the file alt-rule.pro replacing
>> alt-rule.pro
>> in LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71).].
>>
>> And for the tests I returned to "$MATH_SCALE_FACTOR=1.6;", without the
>> double quotation marks, within the file /usr/lib/latex2html/l2hconf.pm.
>> But
>> unfortunately in my case the workaround 1 and the combination of the
>> workarounds 1 and 2 did not remove the unwanted black line segment
>> underneath an integral sign in the .html file produced by a latex2html
>> command working with the .tex file containing the LaTeX command
>> \int\limits
>> _{-\infty}^{+\infty} within an equation environment. I also tried single
>> quotation marks or apostrophes in place of double quotation marks in the
>> line $DVIPSOPT = " -E"; in the file l2hconf.pm; but still the unwanted
>> black
>> line segments remained within the produced .html file. So I still
>> request
>> help to remove the unwanted black line segments underneath some of my
>> integral signs.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "jos" <j at w3k.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:02 PM
>> To: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: <latex2html at tug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [l2h] Black bars under integral signs when the limits
>> ofintegrationare -\infty and +\infty or an algebraic fraction for each
>> of the upper and
>> lower limits
>>
>>> Here is how I got around the black-bar problem:
>>>
>>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/webpub/Eliminating_Black_Rules_Equation.html
>>>
>>> - jos
>>>
>>> At 12:15 PM 4/11/2011, Pat Somerville wrote:
>>>>Thanks, Nasser M. Abbasi, for kindly taking the time to reply to me. I
>>>>found the file /usr/lib/latex2html/l2hconf.pm. In it among other lines
>>>>the following lines existed, but not necessarily consecutively:
>>>>
>>>>$DVIPSOPT .=" -E"; (Please notice the period before the equals sign.)
>>>>
>>>>$MATH_SCALE_FACTOR=1.6;
>>>>
>>>>#$DISP_SCALE_FACTOR=1;
>>>>
>>>>So after receiving your e-mail letter I changed two of those lines to
>>>>read:
>>>>
>>>>$MATH_SCALE_FACTOR=1.8;
>>>>
>>>>$DISP_SCALE_FACTOR=1.0;
>>>>.
>>>>Results in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML: The black line segment
>>>>under the integral sign with the limits of integration having algebraic
>>>>fractions in them was removed. But the black line segments under
>>>>integral
>>>>signs produced from the LaTeX commands containing \int\limits
>>>>_{-\infty}^{+\infty} remained. Those were probably among 27 reported
>>>>errors on 27 images. I don't know with which images all of the other
>>>>errors were. But I think I remember at least one pnmcrop-related error
>>>>while latex2html was processing my .tex file.
>>>>
>>>>Next I changed to $MATH_SCALE_FACTOR=2.0; in the file l2hconf.pm and
>>>>otherwise did not change any other lines in that file.
>>>>
>>>>Results: There were errors on 27 images. The black segment under the
>>>>integral sign with algebraic fractional limits returned.
>>>>
>>>>Continuing with the same settings in l2hconf.pm I made a test, .tex file
>>>>containing some commands very similar to
>>>>
>>>>\begin{equation}
>>>>\int\limits _{-\infty}^{+\infty}
>>>>\end{equation}
>>>>
>>>>and then produced a .html file from that .tex file using a latex2html...
>>>>command. In the resulting .html file a black line segment existed under
>>>>the integral sign with the limits of positive and negative infinity.
>>>>What
>>>>should I do now to try to eliminate the unwanted black line segments
>>>>under
>>>>some of the integral signs? Note also that there were also around 20
>>>>images with errors reported while latex2html attempted to generate them;
>>>>and in detail I don't yet know what obvious problems there were, if any,
>>>>with the associated mathematical symbols associated with the images for
>>>>which errors were reported by LaTeX2HTML.
>>>>
>>>>Pat
>>>>
>>>>--------------------------------------------------
>>>>From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
>>>>Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:37 AM
>>>>To: <latex2html at tug.org>
>>>>Subject: Re: [l2h] Black bars under integral signs when the limits
>>>>ofintegrationare -\infty and +\infty or an algebraic fraction for
>>>>each of the upper and lower limits
>>>>
>>>>>On 4/10/2011 10:29 PM, Pat Somerville wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Question: What can I do to eliminate all of such examples of unwanted
>>>>>>black bars
>>>>>> underneath some of the integral signs?
>>>>>
>>>>>This sounds like the same known problem which was mentioned here some
>>>>>time ago?
>>>>>
>>>>>Check http://12000.org/my_notes/l2hwin/index.htm and look for
>>>>>
>>>>>item (2) under "some errors and possible solutions"
>>>>>
>>>>>Here it is:
>>>>>
>>>>>"some of the bitmap images produced for the mathematics in the
>>>>>document have a solid dark bar, usually at the bottom or the
>>>>>side of the bitmap image. The reason for this is unknown.
>>>>>But I found by trial and error that setting the following
>>>>>values in my l2hconf.pm eliminated most if not all of these
>>>>>
>>>>>$MATH_SCALE_FACTOR = 1.8;
>>>>>$DISP_SCALE_FACTOR = 1.0;
>>>>>
>>>>>"
>>>>>
>>>>>Something to try to see if it will fix your problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>--Nasser
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