[l2h] latext2html on Mandrake 8.2 - fixed-ish

[Ross Moore]

> Hi,
> 
>      This morning I was determined to track down what was causing my
> problem with maths image generation. My inspection of the generated
> images.tex file last week revealed that the two lines
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{html}
> 
> were missing from the start of the file. With this information I looked
> through the latex2html file in an attempt to locate where the file was
> being generated. In the make_latex subroutine I located the code which
> creates the $preamble, specifically the line
> 
> $preamble = "\\documentclass{article}.........";
>     unless($preamble);
> 
> Which comes after a number of $preamble =~ s/...... operations. Comparing
> this with the version of latex2html on the solaris box, I found that the
> same code works fine on solaris under perl 5.005_03 but on Mandrake 8.2
> with perl 5.6.1 $preamble contains a \n so the \\documentclass is
> not added...

Interesting.
Try changing the condition to:

    unless ($preamble && $preamble !~ /^\s+$/s);

so that having only whitespace is not sufficient to prevent adding those
initial lines.

 
> I could be wrong in my guess, 17k lines of perl take some getting
> used to, but I think this is a perl problem rather than a latex2html one.
> I don't have time to run more thorough checks how (I have kludge-fixed it
> by commenting out the unless and adding a colon at the end of the
> assignment) so I can't be sure. I will post another update when I get
> chance to track this down a bit better...

Thanks for the report.

Cheers

	Ross Moore

> Chris
> 
> 
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