[l2h] Re: latex2html

[Ross Moore]

> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the prompt response.  I changed the temporary dirctory
> as you suggested, it worked a step forward, but still had 
> problems.  The script of the execution of latex2html
> is attached below, could you take a look
> again? It looks like I am one step away from getting the thing
> works.    Thanks. 
> 
> ps. I also noticed at the bottom it says "unkown command xing".
> Why is that? (xing is my last name).

It's definitely part of the problem.

The use of *both*  `\' and `/' as directory delimiters
is screwing up the works.

At some point,  \xing  has been put into the file in a place
that doesn't result in any output, but nevertheless
LaTeX2HTML think it needs to be expanded as a macro.

That's only a minor thing.
The major problem is related to 

> 
> Error (Unlink): Unlink "TMP\l2h326335" failed: No such file or directory
>  at C:\TEXUTILS\L2H\BIN/latex2html.bat line 9043
> 
> 
> Files: l2h326335  in C:\xing\test\TMP are still in use.
 

This *cleanup* is happening much too soon.
It is supposed to be done *after* the image-generation has been
completed, not before.

This call to  pnmcrop fails, perhaps because some of the files have been 
removed already ...

> GS>showpage
> GS>quit
> 
> AFPL Ghostscript 7.03 (2001-10-20)
> Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> GS>GS>>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> GS>>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

Strange that  Ghostscript has apparently been called twice here.

> GS>Running "C:\TEXUTILS\NETPBM\BIN\pnmcrop.exe  < c:\xing\l2h223001\p319973.pnm > c:\xing\l2h223001\p319973.t01"
> Bad command or file name
> pstoimg.bat: Error: "C:\TEXUTILS\NETPBM\BIN\pnmcrop.exe  < c:\xing\l2h223001\p319973.pnm > c:\xing\l2h223001\p319973.t01" produced empty file

Is this running in the shell, or within Ghostscript ?
Does the directory \xing\l2h223001 still exist at this point ?



You should be able to hack around the problem by redefining the  &cleanup 
subroutine within a  .latex2html-init  file.

Simply insert a line:

  sub cleanup {}

But then you will need to remove the temporary directory yourself,
or just leave it lying around, taking up disk space.

Someone more experienced with your platform/OS will need to examine
more closely why things seem to be happening in the wrong order.
I cannot do this easily myself.
(Needless to say, this problem does not occur on other platforms,
though it has been reported before, for Windows 2000.)



Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore