[l2h] What is a good way to introduce five or six consecutive, blank spaces within text in a .html file produced using LaTeX2HTML?

[Peter Flynn]

On 13/10/11 04:39, Pat Somerville wrote:
> Hello. This year of 2011 I wanted to include Fortran computer program
> code (footnote below) and output listings in .tex files and then run
> latex and latex2html commands on those files to produce .html output
> files. But I have yet to produce all of the blank columns or spaces and
> in the proper locations that I would like to see them in the output,
> .html files at or near the beginnings of all of the desired Fortran
> statements.

I think you may be pushing l2h beyond the limits of its capability.
Essentially, what you need is for LaTeX to use the listings package, so 
that the spaces in your FORTRAN code are retained, and for the 
conversion to HTML to turn this into HTML's <pre> element type. I 
remember seeing a colleague try to do this once, and I'm fairly sure he 
failed. Alternatives:

1. try TeX4ht instead of latex2html

2. do it the other way round: write your document in XML (DocBook, for 
example), and then transform it (a) to LaTeX for making a PDF and (b) to 
HTML for the web, using a pair of XSLT scripts. Much more work, but much 
more control.

///Peter