[tex-live] tex4ht bugfix

Eitan Gurari gurari@cis.ohio-state.edu
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:38:28 -0500


Thomas,

I incorporated the modification also at my site in tex4ht.c, as well
as in t4ht.c.

Please don't worry about the copyright note; it is not intended 
for you and company.

Thanks and regards, -eitan



 > I just have changed source.development/TeX/texk/tex4htk/tex4ht.c and
 > fixed a bug in the "improper command line" error message. Maybe, this
 > should propagate into the "source" tree in perforce.
 > 
 > I use
 > 
 > "some long line\n"
 > "more text",
 > 
 > for one long string instead of
 > 
 > "some long line\n\
 > more text"
 > 
 > That \ at the end of the line was not detected as "continue in the next
 > line", maybe, because of the CR/LF coding of the file. Using the feature
 > that a standard compiler must automatically concatenate subsequent string
 > constants, we should have a more robust solution now (independend of the
 > OS line end convention and the lineends of the source code).
 > 
 > Eitan Gurari, do you agree with that change? The program has a funny
 > license, but I hope that we don't need to change the name of the program
 > or its signature?
 > 
 > Thomas