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<P>Hi. I have a .tex file of the form file.tex on which the issuing of commands
of the form "latex file.tex" and "latex2html -nonavigation -no_math
-html_version 4.01,math -split 0 file.tex" produced black line segments under
some tall mathematical symbols and fractions, such as a parenthesis, a brace, or
fractions, especially when there was a capital letter in the numerator. For
example, in one equation R/q had an unwanted line segment under it; but r/q and
1/q did not. So it is pretty clear that this a height-related problem occurring
with the tall, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images I am producing. The
unwanted line segments appeared when viewing the .html file produced as a result
of the latex2hmtl command in both the Konqueror and Mozilla-Firefox-3.5.2 Web
browsers. Executing a latex2html command on this .tex file in Fedora-Core-3
Linux, this problem did not occur. But using the same .tex file 1.5 years later
in OpenSuSE-11.1 Linux I had the unwanted line segments under some images of
mathematical symbols and fractions. I can't write with certainty that the
latex2html commands were identical in the two cases about 1.5 years apart. But
the above latex2html command was similar to what I often used. Is the command
"latex2html -nonavigation -no_math -html_version 4.01,math -split 0 file.tex"
antiquated for the modern, OpenSuSE-11.1, Linux environment, for example in the
version number 4.01? Or am I using a version of some software package
incompatible with what latex2html "expects" to find? Or am I missing a required
software package?</P>
<P>Also some pstoimg errors are reported during the running of latex2html, for
example:</P>
<P>'pstoimg: Error: "/usr/bin/pnmcrop -verbose -sides -bot <
/tmp/l2h6353/p9481.pnm> /tmp/l2h6353/p9481.t00" failed: Bad file
descriptor'</P>
<P>Here are some software packages I was using in OpenSuSE-11.1 Linux when the
errors occurred:</P>
<P>In response to the command "latex2html --version": $* is no longer supported
at /usr/bin/latex2html line 10599". "This is LaTeX2HTML version 2002-2-1
(1.70)..."</P>
<P>In response to the command "LaTeX --version": pdfTeX using libpoppler
3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) Copyright 2007 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han
The Thanh (pdfTeX)</P>
<P>kpathsea version 3.5.6</P>
<P>Probably pdfTeX was compiled with libpng 1.2.31, zlib 1.2.3, and xpdf
3.0.1.</P>
<P>In addition, after running a command of the form "latex file.tex", I think
"latex2e" also appeared! What is going on here? Is this "latex" a combination of
pdfTeX and LaTeX version 2e?</P>
<P>Perl 5.10</P>
<P>dvips 5.96</P>
<P>In response to the command "rpm -qa | grep ghostscript":
ghostscript-library-8.62-31.43.1, ghostscript-fonts-other-8.62-31.43.1,
ghostscript-omni-8.62-31.43.1, ghostscript-fonts-std-8.62-31.43.1,
ghostscript-x11-8.62-31.43.1</P>
<P>In response to the command "rpm -qa | grep netpbm": netpbm-10.26.44-98.12,
libnetpbm-10.26.44-98.12</P>
<P>In response to the command "rpm -qa | grep libpng": libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.38.1,
libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.38.1</P>
<P>The package libpng3 exists. But I do not have it installed in my
OpenSuSE-11.1 Linux installation.</P>
<P>I did not find libz installed in my OpenSuSE-11.1 Linux installation, but in
a search for libz in YaST2 did find libzio-0.9-4.19 and libzypp-5.30.3-0.1.1
reported as installed.</P>
<P>Via the software I am building PNG images.</P>
<P>In response to the commands "pnmcrop --version" and "pnmtopng" I saw
libnetpbm from Netpbm version: Netpbm 10.26.44, compiled Dec. 3, 2008.</P>
<P>pnmcrop: BSD defined</P>
<P>pnmcrop: RGB_ENV='RGBDEF'</P>
<P>pnmcrop:RGBENV='RGBDEF' (env vbl unset) .</P>
<P>In response to the command "libpng --version": -bash: libpng: command not
found (But from the above data clearly some libpng packages are installed on my
computer.)</P>
<P>In response to the command "libz --versioin": -bash: libz: command not found
</P>
<P>I am aware of Dr. Ross Moore's year-2003 solution to avoid the black line
segments under some images from
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/latex2html/2003-02/msg00001.html on the
Internet of inserting \strut or an invisible \vrule to fix such a problem in
individual cases, as in $......\strut$ and "\vrule height 15 pt depth 0pt width
0pt." Also I was aware that one could have the unwanted black line segments
around and/or below images when using too early a version of latex2html, which I
don't think is the problem now in my case. Is there a global solution for me to
avoid the problem of black line segments that I have encountered in this modern,
OpenSuSE-11.1 environment?</P>
<P>In addition, at http://www.latex2html.org/node2.html on the Internet the
following hyperlinks to the following Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) did not
work on August 24-25, 2009: http://www-texdev.ics.mq.edu.au/l2h/docs/manual/ and
http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/l2h/l2h-note.html. Thanks to anyone taking the
time to provide useful help to me.</P>
<P>Pat</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>