[l2h] plastex

[Igor Peshansky]

Top-posting reformatted.

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> >>> On Monday 30 October 2006 14:20, Erling D. Andersen wrote:
> >>>  > Some users of latex2html may find the following alternative to
> >>>  > latex2html interesting. See
> >>>
> >>> Interesting; I wasn't aware of this project.  It's nice to see the structure
> >>> of the pages in the example document be so similar to what I've been using
> >>> for the Python documentation.
> >>>
> >>> This project definately warrants further investigation.
> >> Does anybody have information about how to get plastex to run under
> >> Windows -- or even under cygwin?
> >
> > You mean, beyond installing Cygwin python and following the
> > instructions in the INSTALL file?  What exactly doesn't work for you?
> > 	Igor
>
> plasTeX doesn't work for me in cygwin.
>
> I have what appears to be the latest Python available for cygwin,
> namely: Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 18 2006, 07:40:45)
>
> I get the following error when I try to run plastex (from the directory
> cygdrive/d/WP/TeXutils/plastex-0.6.2/plasTeX):
>
> $./plastex
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./plastex", line 4, in ?
> import plasTeX
> ImportError: No moudle named plasTeX

I imagine you typed the above in instead of pasting it...  However, that's
not what you should have run according to the INSTALL file, anyway.

> The release notes for plasTeX say it "now works" with Python 2.5. Does
> this mean it does NOT work with Python 2.4.3, and that's the error? Or
> something else?

Something else.  Once I followed the directions in the INSTALL file, I was
able to run plasTeX to completion with no "missing module" errors using
Python 2.4.3 under Cygwin.  I cannot vouch for the quality of the HTML
produced, however, nor for the sophistication of the LaTeX code accepted.
	Igor
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