[fptex] tex4ht broken ?

[pascal barbedor]

Hi

I am trying to use tex4ht.

I have read the document "affichez vos documents latex sur le web avec
tex4ht"

I am trying the first example given, even simplified, in a short file
essai.tex


I submit htlatex essai


latex is succesffully run 3 times, but when it comes to tex4ht phase, i have
the folowing error (consistent on any file i give)

tex4ht.c (2001-01-26-13:32)
tex4ht essai
[1--warning--

\special{t4ht..."<span
style="position:absolute; left:%.2fex; top:%.2fex"
class="canvas-xy"><span
class="canvas-char">}?

--warning-- extra character in \special {t4ht"....5'  ---error --- ilegal
storage address


and the resulting essai.html file is only composed of

<span class="(null)-



I have the texlive 5 installation with almost everything installed

thanks for anyhelp
and happy new year

ps here is the latex source essai.tex

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{colortbl}

\author{olyome}
\title{quelques notions de math}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\HCode{<hr>}
\tableofcontents
\HCode{<hr>}

\section {première section}
\subsection{première soussection}
Une équation : $ x^2+y^2=z^2 $
\end{document}