[l2h] LyX an LaTeX2html cannot handle tables

[Ross Moore]

Hello Heiko,

On 29/08/2004, at 8:15 AM, Heiko Schröder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since I am searching nearly the half of the day for a good idea in the
> archive, what this time the reason could be, that again there appeared 
> a
> rather great bug between the last version of LaTeX2html (1.70) and LyX 
> 1.3.3
> I am rather close to cancel my plan using tables for my websites.
>
> In fact latex2html *cannot* handle tables, LyX generates since you can 
> only

Many people process tables quite happily using LaTeX2HTML.

It would help a great deal if you provided an example of the kind of 
table
coding that is causing you difficulty, rather than just making a blanket
statement blaming one piece of software or another.

Tables can be very complicated objects, and the possibilities
of what to put in the header (ie.e column-specification) are being
extended by different packages in different ways, to obtain special
effects. So you have to expect that some new features, designed for
one piece of software, will not work with other software.

Also, don't forget that HTML is rather primitive as a typesetting 
language,
so many effects will never be able to be implemented anyway.



> see the first row and beyond the last entry in the last cell the 
> contents of
> the first cell of the second row. The rest of the table ist not shown 
> at all.
>
> So I think, it is a better idea, not to use tables, is it? ;-) 
> latex2html
> still translates pure text without any troubles and it is ob. I am 
> really a
> bit disappointed that it is so difficult to rely on latex2html, 
> although it
> has shown that it is great software.

Just send an example, and someone may then be able to show you
how to modify it so as to get an acceptable result.



>
> On the one hand someone who focuses on other projects and uses 
> software which
> promises that an author can concentrate only on the contents, has to 
> spend
> twice of the time compared with a word processor to look deeply into 
> the
> software to find out, what bug it is *this* time. Till the next 
> version.
>
> Sorry, but I would like to use latex2html with good result, but with 
> every new
> version, another annoying bug comes up, which has not been discovered 
> in the
> version before.

New version of what ?
There has been no real new version of LaTeX2HTML for several years now.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


>
> Greetings from Heiko
>
> -- 
> Heiko Schröder
> Praha
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