[tex4ht] About the duplicate files when building with tex4ht using -d option

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

On 5/28/2016 11:23 AM, Michal Hoftich wrote:
>>
>
> I've changed the behaviour of make4ht, check the Github repo. It in fact
> uses OS commands to copy files (cp on Unix, copy on Windows), so I've
> just replaced it with mv, resp move. Could you please test it on
> Windows?
>

Thanks Michal;

Just to be clear, since I am using make4ht that is part of TL 2015,
I see on

https://github.com/michal-h21/make4ht

the file "mkutils.lua" has just been changed. Can I just download this
one file, and replace:

>kpsewhich mkutils.lua
/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/make4ht/mkutils.lua

with it?  Will this be enough to do this patch?  Just wanted to make
sure. I do not want to end up with 2 versions of make4ht if I install
everything, it will get confusing unless one have to do this.

> Regarding htlatex, you can modify the tex4ht.env file:
>
> Mmv %%1 %%2%%3
> Cmv %%1 %%2%3"
>
> to
>
> Mmv %%1 %%2%%3
> Cmv %%1 "%%2/%%1"
>
> (this is Unix version, it will be different for Windows). Beware that
> the output directory must exist, make4ht will create it automatically.
>
>>
>> It is very hard to clean all these files automatically in makefiles
>> after the build, since one can easily delete wrong files by mistake
>> and I am not sure which files I should be deleting also.
>
> You can grep the .lg file for output files.
>>
>>
> Best regards,
> Michal
>

thanks,
--Nasser