[l2h] Indic-TeX/HTML

[Bob Hueckstedt]

Dear Ross Moore,
Thank you for the help.

I first tried the double command rename images.pre images.dn; devnag . . .

The return on that was: The syntax of the command is incorrect.

So I edited devnagri.perl as you suggested, changing ";" to "\r\n", 
giving this line at both line 178 and at line 216:
"$RENAME ${PREFIX}images.pre ${PREFIX}images.dn\r\n";

I ran latex2html on the little test.dn file. The response was:

Writing image.pre file . . .
Cannot open file images.dn

I looked at the preproc file and found:

rename images.pre images.dn
1
devnag  images.dn images.tex

So, we do have separate lines, but perhaps that "1" is throwing things 
off?  But why would it prevent (does it prevent?) rename from working? I 
couldn't find out where that 1 might come from, even after running 
latex2html test.dn with the -debug option.

Befuddled,
Bob

Ross Moore wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On 08/12/2005, at 2:25 AM, Bob Hueckstedt wrote:
> 
>> So, I found the spot in latex2html.bat file that Ross Moore  
>> specified. It is there and checks out exactly as he wrote it in his  
>> email.
>>
>> Yes, there is a file preproc in the test subdirectory. It has in it  
>> this line: rename images.pre images.dn; devnag  images.dn images.tex
>>
>> (The background to getting this to work was that I had to change  the 
>> relevant command in the devnagri.perl file from mv to rename.)
> 
> 
> OK. This looks like I never adapted  devnagri.perl  to be OS  independent.
> viz.
> 
> rossmoor% grep -n RENAME devnagri.perl
> 115:$RENAME = 'mv';     # Unix
> 116:#$RENAME = 'rename'; # DOS
> 178:            "$RENAME ${PREFIX}images.pre ${PREFIX}images.dn; ";
> 216:            "$RENAME ${PREFIX}images.pre ${PREFIX}images.dn; ";
> 
> line 115 is adapted for Unix, whereas the DOS version is commented-out.
> 
> But simply using the appropriate command may not be enough.
> 
>>
>> I ran both those commands from the command line, and both worked.
> 
> 
> You say that these commands each work separately:
>   rename images.pre images.dn
>   devnag images.dn images.tex
> 
> But do they work under XP/DOS as a single compound command ?
>   rename images.pre images.dn ; devnag images.dn images.tex
> 
> If not, then the file  preproc  needs to be constructed by
> putting them on separate lines.
> That is, under DOS the ';' towards the end of lines 178 and 216
> needs to become a line-end combination  "\r\n" .
> viz.,
>    "$RENAME ${PREFIX}images.pre ${PREFIX}images.dn\r\n";
> 
> Would you edit  devnagri.perl  to test this please.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>     Ross
> 
>>
>> ??,
>> RAH
>>
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