dear radhakrishnan:<br><br>ThANks for your help. Its working, I can convert the files to html following your directions. <br><br>Let me recapitulate what I did: 1. I put \usepackage (Tex4ht) in the pre-amble of a.tex 2. then ran "htlatex a" from the command prompt 3. then viewed the a.html file, in my case, using my IDE Kile<br>
<br>Now I've a new question, how to translate the \emph or \textit? because when I run latex the DVI file does show it emphasized but the html file is NOT emphasized.<br><br><br>Im running Linux Ubuntu using the IDE Kile<br>
<br>my sample file is <br><br>\documentclass{book}<br>\usepackage{tex4ht}<br><br>\begin{document}<br><br>What to do when one seeks to follow the sufi path and reach God? One may<br>learn from the personal experience of the Mujaddid. He writes in his<br>
monograph \textit{Mabda' va Ma`ad}\index{books!\emph{Mabda' va Ma`ad}} <br>about how he started his own sufi journey.<br>\begin{quote}<br>When I experienced the desire for this path, divine grace (\textit{ilahi}) (SWT) took<br>
me to a caliph of the family of the \textit{khwaja} hazrats (qaf). It is from there<br>that I attained the tariqa of these masters and I clung to his<br>companionship. [Mabda' 1, 3.1-4]\index{Naqshbandi tariqa!Mujaddid starts}<br>
\end{quote}<br>Yes! In order to attain Allah, one must attain the companionship of an<br>authorized deputy or \textit{khalifa} of any of the sufi tariqas and learn from him.<br><br>\end{document}<br><br><br>when I LATEX it and view the DVI file, yes those words are italicised, but when I htlatex it and view the html file, none is italicised.<br>
<br>so how to get it italicised in html?<br><br clear="all">Irshad Alam<br>Khadim (servant) of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Tariqa<br>Author of books on-Translations/Notes from the Maktubat-i Imam-i Rabbani, Rumi poems, Muinuddin Chishti sufi poems<br>
Berkeley, California<br><a href="http://www.sufipeace.org">www.sufipeace.org</a><br><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Sufi-Center">www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Sufi-Center</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Radhakrishnan CV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cvr@river-valley.org">cvr@river-valley.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 20-Sep-2010, at 8:43 AM, Irshad Alam wrote:<br>
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> what to do so that the block quotations are translated properly in html, when I convert my<br>
> latex files into html files via tex4ht package? My ultimate purpose is to make them<br>
> into Kindle ebooks from the html. Pls note that Im a non-techie and the books are<br>
> simple non-math, non-science books on spirituality.<br>
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> Then I latex it and the DVI file is correct.<br>
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> Then i tex4ht it and then the middle paragraph is not indented as a quotation. and thats the problem.<br>
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> HTLATEX-ing the files is not an option because although this sample file is simple,<br>
> the actual file that Ill be working with is very complex and htlatex does not work there.<br>
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</div>If you do not want to use htlatex, then you might follow the following path:<br>
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latex <file><br>
latex <file><br>
latex <file><br>
<br>
tex4ht <file><br>
t4ht <file><br>
<br>
Open your file.html in a browser and see for yourself. htlatex does all the above processes in one go.<br>
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Best<br>
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<font color="#888888">Radhakrishnan<br>
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