equations do not work
Ross MOORE
latex2html
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:50:14 +1100 (EST)
> I just installed latex2html v 98.1.1 on a sun running solaris 2.
>
> There is a bug in install-test because it does not handle correctly
> recent versions of dvips, as the line it looks for has dvips(k) rather
> than dvipsk.
The line that checks for dvips in the latest versions of
the install-test for LaTeX2HTML looks like:
% grep -n dvips install*
273: s/dvips(k|\(k\))?\s*([\d\.]+)/$version = $2;/eo;
This pattern will catch your version.
> ... I don't know if that causes my real problem, which is
> equations in latex files create empty .gif files yet there is no
> error message. The size is fine in my output file, just no equation.
There should be no incompatibility.
Have a look in your latex2html.config for where $DVIPS is defined.
Presumably it is empty, or some default that is not applicable
on your installation, because that is what install-test was supposed
to customise.
Make the edit suggested above, then run install-test again.
Verify that $DVIPS has changed within latex2html.config .
Now image-generation should work correctly,
insofar as dvips (or dvipsk) is concerned.
> Is it possible that there are some features in my version of dvips whic
> have a compatibility problem with latex2html?
>
> Here is information on my version:
>
> vtso{snoke}223: dvips
> This is dvips(k) 5.78 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> Missing DVI file argument (or -f).
> Try --help for more information.
> vtso{snoke}224:
>
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore