[l2h] tex counters cannot be used in html 4.0 for programming latex2html

[Peter Morling]

Dear Ross,

another problem occoured using html 4.0. Everytime you refer to a counter it
will be tagged with:

<SPAN CLASS="arabic"> \thecounter </SPAN>

...meaning you cannot use LaTeX counters for your own anchors!

e.g.,

\newcommand{\ltopanchor}{
\rawhtml
<!-- Start of topanchor -->
<A NAME="SEC\endrawhtml\thesection\rawhtml">
<!-- End of topanchor -->
\endrawhtml
}

will produce in html 4.0

<!-- Start of topanchor -->
<A NAME="SEC<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">0</SPAN>">
<!-- End of topanchor -->


in html 3.2 everything works fine and will produce:

<!-- Start of topanchor -->
<A NAME="SEC1.0">
<!-- End of topanchor -->


Is there a solution to this problem? (except for post-processing html for
the excact span-tag ;) )

Best,
Peter






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