[l2h] Bug report: Illegal division by zero latex2html.bat line 558 when setting $PK_GENERATION = 1

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

From: "Ross Moore" ross at ics.mq.edu.au

> Hello Nasser,
>
> On 17/11/2009, at 3:05 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> (also posted on comp.text.tex)
>>
>> On windows, XP, SP2, using latex2html 2008 version, I get the  following 
>> when I set
>> $PK_GENERATION = 1 in the l2hconf.pm file
>
> Why would you want this now?
>

Hello Ross;

I have no idea.

I was just trying to make the bitmapped math on my screen look more sharp, 
so I was reading this document 
http://www.math.vt.edu/people/linnell/l2h_man.pdf   by Nikos Drakos "The 
Latex2html Translator" dated 2004, and on page 13 at the bottom, it says

"The installation variable $PK GENERATION specifies which fonts are used in 
the generation of mathematical equations. A value of "0" causes the same 
fonts to be used asthose for the default printer. Because they were designed 
for a printer of much greater resolution than the screen, equations will 
generally appear to be of a lower quality than
is otherwise possible. To cause LATEX2HTML to dynamically generate fonts 
that are designed specifically for the screen, you should specify a value of 
"1" for this variable. "

So, I figured, i''l try it, what do I have to lose? even though I do not 
know much about how all font business really works at this time.


> That is an old option for when fonts used to be made up
> of bitmaps. THat is out-dated technology now, by 10 years
> or more.
>
> Instead, modern TeX installations have scalable outline-based
> fonts, in PostScript, TrueType or OpenType formats.
> To use these LaTeX2HTML has a  $SCALEABLE_FONTS  variable, and
> $DVIPS_OPTS (or similar name) to customise how your installation
> finds which fonts to use.
>

Ok, I'll look into this.

Thanks!

--Nasser

>>
>> latex2html -split 0  -no_subdir -local_icons -style="nma.css"   index.tex
>> $* is no longer supported at G:\LATEX\latex2html\bin/latex2html.bat  line 
>> 10607.
>> Illegal division by zero at G:\LATEX\latex2html\bin/latex2html.bat  line 
>> 558.
>>
>> The error goes away when restting  $PK_GENERATION = 0
>>
>> This is the env. I have
>>
>> MikTex: Version 8.2 http://miktex.org/
>> Perl: Active Perl 5.1 build 1006. http://www.activestate.com/ activeperl/
>> netpbm for windows: Version 10.27. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ 
>> packages/netpbm.htm
>> gsview: version 4.9. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get49.htm
>> ghostcript. AFLP http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/index.htm
>> latex2html version 2008 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ 
>> latex2html/
>>
>> --Nasser
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ross Moore
>
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