[l2h] Help with latex/latex2html layout

[Ross Moore]

> 
> Dear All
> 
> I'm trying to layout a page in latex which is readily
> translatable with latex2html but, alas, I cannot do what I
> want.  Here is a diagram of what I want:
> 
>  -----------
> |           |  Some more text
> |  Some     | 
> |           |  adjacent to
> |  text in  |  
> |           |  the frame box.
> |  a framed |
> |           |
> |  box.     |
> |           |
>  -----------
> 
> To keep the 2 bits of text adjacent in the HTML I can
> use a tabular environment within an outer tabular
> environment.  I can put a border around the left hand table
> by specifiying a vertical bar in the column specs.  However,
> I also need to insert some vertical space (I used \\)

Use \newline .
 \\ is the table row-delimiter, in LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML.


> in the left hand table.  When converted to HTML this "whitespace"
> is inserted into separate <TR>'s and I get horizontal lines

Yes, it would be, because the text lines are in separate cells
(in different rows). This is also true in LaTeX, but you don't
notice because you aren't drawing the dividing lines.


> Question: How can I get the entire left hand box contents, with
> some vertical spacing between the lines, into one <TR><TD> section ?

Hope the above helps,

	Ross Moore