[l2h] An Apparent Byte Size Limit for a Portable Network Graphics (.png) Image File Containing Simplified Chinese Characters Produced by LaTeX2HTML From a .tex File Containing LaTeX and Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) for LaTeX Comma

[Pat Somerville]

Thank you, Professors Ross Moore and Shigeharu Takeno, for each of you 
kindly taking the time to respond to me.  Switching from
\usepackage{CJKutf8} to \usepackage{CJK} in a .tex file of the form 
MyFile.tex did solve two problems:

1) In the case of a large segment of LaTeX commands beginning with 
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn} and ending with \end{CJK} in a .tex file, that 
change eliminated the "Bad file descriptor error"s while the program 
LaTeX2HTML attempted to generate some .png (Portable Network Graphics) 
images.  With the above change the number of .png images produced from a 
tex file greatly increased due to the mathematical content, more like the 
operation with which I was accustomed using LaTeX2HTML.

2) It was no longer necessary to have either an \end{CJK}command before a 
command of the form \htmladdnormallink{http://../}{http://../} or another 
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn} command following the htmladdnormallink command.
But there was a negative side effect.  From what I have read the Chinese 
pinyin package, which is really the file pinyin.sty, is supposed to be a 
part of the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) software package.  With the 
following set of commands among others in a test, .tex file of the form 
MyFile.tex:
....
.....
\usepackage{CJK}
\usepackage{pinyin}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}
\Wo \xi3\huan1 \chi1 \fan4.
\PYdeactivate
$\chi $ $\mu $
\PYactivate
\end{CJK}
\end{document}

, neither the pinyin expression corresponding to \Wo \xi3\huan1 \chi1 \fan4 
nor the Greek letters chi and mu were displayed in the .html file produced 
as a result of executing a command of the form "latex2html....... 
MyFile.tex".  But changing only the command \usepackage{CJK} to 
\usepackage{CJKutf8}, the pinyin and Greek letters were displayed correctly 
in such a .html file.  Changing that command to \begin{CJK}{GB}{gbsn} also 
resulted in the set of disappointing results.  So for the moment in the .tex 
file

a) using the LaTeX commands \usepackage{CJKutf8} and \usepackage{pinyin},

b) a number of short, CJK segments each beginning with 
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn} and ending with \end{CJK} to avoid the "Bad file 
descriptor error"s in generating some .png images of the text and 
mathematics between such delimiting commands,

c) surrounding each \htmladdnormallink{http://../}{http://..} command with a 
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn} and \end{CJK} pair of commands,

d) and surrounding a group of LaTeX commands and text containing commands 
for Greek letters like $\chi $ and $\mu $ with the command \PYdeactivate 
before them and sometime or sometimes the command \PYactivate after them, a 
command which is probably necessary if some pinyin romanizations were to 
follow the latter command,

is a strategy which enabled simplified Chinese characters, Greek letters, 
hyperlinks, and pinyin romanizations to all be displayed correctly in a 
html file produced by executing a command of the form 
"latex2html..........MyFile.tex".

But concerning the use of the pinyin software package, apparently there is 
something basic which is a problem somewhere.  The following set of LaTeX 
commands

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJK}
\usepackage{pinyin}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{Bg5}{fs}
\Wo \xi3\huan1 \chi1 \fan4.
\end{CJK}
\end{document}

in my test file Throwaway.tex differs from the set in 
http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb18-3/cjkintro600.pdf only slightly in the 
line of pinyin which begins with \Wo3 ..... and in not containing any 
Chinese characters. Yet the output file Throwaway.html produced by executing 
a command of the form "latex2html ........ Throwaway.tex" contained the 
output 3 the lower-case Greek letter xi#xi; the lower-case Greek letter chi 
or an X#chi;1 4. instead of good-looking pinyin.  Changing the 
\usepackage{CJK} and \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{fs} commands to \usepackage{CJKutf8} 
and either the \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{fs} or the \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{fs} commands, 
the output was good-looking pinyin containing the proper diacritical marks. 
Again I am using LaTeX2HTML 1.70, a year-2002 version.  And I could be using 
CJK 4.7.0 for LaTeX, based on what I read inside the file CJKutf8.sty.--I 
used the CJK software packages provided via the Internet using Yet another 
Software Tool 2's (YaST2's) "Online Updates" in July of the year 2010 for 
OpenSuSE-11.1, Linux.  What is the cause of the problem here?  And how can 
it be fixed?  Looking at "History of the CJK Package" at 
http://cjk.ffii.org/history.txt on the Internet, for version 4.7.0 of CJK 
one, pinyin-related error was mentioned:

"pinyin.sty:
                      The package didn't preserve `\ding' which is defined
                      in pifont.sty, causing problems with older versions of
                      the hyperref package and its `hpdftex' driver option."

In the above problematic sets of commands I used in Throwaway.tex hyperref 
does not appear among them.  So perhaps the problem I have found is not 
directly mentioned among the errors for CJK 4.7.0.  For version 4.8.1 of 
CJK, which at least based on the contents of CJKutf8.sty I might not be 
using, the following pinyin-related error was mentioned at 
http://cjk.ffii.org/history.txt on the Internet:

                    "Pinyin syllable macros (defined in pinyin.sty) were not
                    robust, causing problems with indices, for example."

Pat



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From: "Shigeharu TAKENO" <shige at iee.niit.ac.jp>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 11:24 PM
To: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
Cc: <latex2html at tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] An Apparent Byte Size Limit for a Portable Network 
Graphics        (.png) Image File Containing Simplified Chinese Characters 
Produced by LaTeX2HTML From a .tex File Containing LaTeX and 
Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) for LaTeX Commands

> shige 08/03 2010
> ----------------
>
> Pat Somerville wrote:
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{CJKutf8}
>
> Latex2html does not support "CJKutf8" style file, but supports
> "CJK" style file. If you use "CJK.sty" instead "CJKutf8", the
> large image may not be made.
>
> cf.
>  http://takeno.iee.niit.ac.jp/~shige/misc/data/testcjk-u.tex
>  http://takeno.iee.niit.ac.jp/~shige/misc/data/testcjk-u.pdf
>  http://takeno.iee.niit.ac.jp/~shige/misc/data/testcjk-u/index.html
>
> +========================================================+
> Shigeharu TAKENO     NIigata Institute of Technology
>                       kashiwazaki,Niigata 945-1195 JAPAN
> shige at iee.niit.ac.jp   TEL(&FAX): +81-257-22-8161
> +========================================================+
>