[tex4ht] Three questions about errors when using mk4ht to create MathJax compatible files

[Steven Dunbar]

In mid-summer, I upgraded to the most recent Fedora 19 distribution of
Linux.  As part of the upgrade, I installed the corresponding 2013 TeXLive
package from Fedora.

Previously (with Fedora 17 and the previous TeXLive version, probably
2011 or possibly 2012), I had used mzlatex to process LaTeX source files to XHTML
1.1 plus MathML 2.0.

After the upgrade I no longer had mzlatex as a script.  After some
searching and learning, I started using the command
mk4ht xhmlatex $1 "/path/to/ht5mathjax"
where ht5mathjax.cfg is the configuration file suggested by Michal
Hoftich and William Hammond.

This command mostly works,  it creates the an html/MathJax file that
is readable with all browsers I have access to.  However, there are several
problems:

1.  Most text formatting no longer exists, for instance, no boldface, a
font change using \texttt{} results in a the same roman font as all
other text, and the macro
\newcommand{\sectiontitle}[1]{\begin{center} {\Large #1} \end{center}}
results in left-justified text at the same size as all other
text.

After some investigating, I see that the old mzlatex processing
created a *.css file of size 6,335 characters, while the new command
creates a *.css file of size 15 characters.  Substituting the old
*.css file restores the text formatting.

Question:  Why doesn't the new command create an appropriate CSS
file? How can I force the processing to create an appropriate CSS?

2.  During the processing, I get a lot of error messages of the form:
tex4ht.c (2012-07-25-19:36 kpathsea)
tex4ht
--- error --- improper command line
tex4ht [-f<path-separator-ch>]in-file[.dvi]

This scrolls past too many times to count, the many identical errors fly by.
But there don't seem to be any problems with the *.html files.

Question:  What's happening?  How to fix?

3.  At the end of the processing, I get the following:
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
--- error --- failed to execute command

Again, there don't seem to be any problems with the *.html files.

Question:  What's happening?  How to fix?


Thanks!

Steve Dunbar

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