[l2h] cannot find file in \input

[Ger van Diepen]

Hello Ross,

Thanks for your help.
I've changed my make rules such that it generates a temporary init
file containing the $TEXINPUTS definition and the standard init file.
It works fine now.

Cheers
- Ger

> 
> Hello Ger,
> 
> > The option -debug learned me that texexpand does not take TEXINPUTS
> > into account, but seems to use a more or less predefined path.
> 
> Yes; your analysis is absolutely correct.
>  
> > 
> > Now is my question:
> > 
> > Can I tell latex2html to look into 199.dir to find taql.tex or do
> > I need to change the \input line into \input{199.dir/taql.tex} ?
> > The latter would be tedious, because there are many more such files.
> 
>  You could use conditional commands to \input from different directories
> when using LaTeX2HTML, and when not.
> But yes, this is tedious.
> 
> Much more elegant is to set the $TEXINPUTS Perl variable
> in a .latex2html-init file for your job.
> 
> 
> > Another question is why latex2html does not take TEXINPUTS into account
> > anymore. It used to do it.
> 
> It doesn't do it (and has not since 1998 or 1999) since typically
> the TEXINPUTS variable is set (rightly or wrongly) to include the whole
>  texmf/  tree. It is then very easy to pick up the wrong .tex file
> in many situations.
> 
> Furthermore, it is quite typical that files that are expected to be
> found via the TEXINPUTS environment variable contain code that is quite
> irrelevant to an HTML translation. This is the same reason that .sty files
> are typically not loaded.
> 
> The Perl $TEXINPUTS variable serves the desired purpose.
> The need to set it separately requires the author to think about whether
> the commands in their \input files will have proper HTML support for the
> macros that they define, or whether more work needs to be done to obtain
> a sensible translation.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 	Ross Moore