[l2h] In my LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html file the references don't look good. What am I missing?
Pat Somerville
l_pat_s at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 2 07:40:54 CET 2011
Hello again. When using the software package natbib and its bibliographic
style file plainnat.bst in a .tex file gratefully I learned a way to obtain
reference numbers both on the base line of text and as superscripts in both
the .dvi file produced by the September 24, 2009 version of LaTeX 2e and the
.html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71 (These are automatically numbered
reference numbers corresponding to reference keys, for example "RAT92" for
the reference M. Rath and L. Pauling, J. Orthomolecular Medicine 7(1), 5
(1992), in a special format in a .bib file.). In the .tex file that uses
natbib and its plainnat.bst for plain reference numbers with no parentheses
or brackets or pairs of something else surrounding them and for commas to
separate a series of reference numbers, include the command
\bibpunct{}{}{,}{n}{}
in the .tex file. (I think the "n" stands for numeric reference citations
on the base line of the text. Instead of "n" an "s" there would stand for
superscripted numbers for the reference citations. I think the references
are supposed to be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the .tex
document.) This will replace the numerical reference equivalent of
\cite{RAT92} on the base line of text with the reference number
corresponding to the example reference key "RAT92" of a reference with data
for it listed in a .bib file. The LaTeX command $^{\cite{RAT92}}$ in the
.tex file will corresponded to that reference number as well, but
superscripted. A beautiful thing about this procedure is that gratefully 1)
it worked this way for reference numbers, both on the base line of text and
as superscripts, in both the .dvi file produced by using the September 24,
2009 version of LaTeX 2e with BibTeX 0.99d and the .html file produced by
LaTeX2HTML 1.71. So using natbib and its plainnat.bst with the line
\bib{}{}{,}{n}{} in the .tex file it is as if \cite{...} becomes the
equivalent of REVTeX 4.1's \onlinecite{...}, where here I think online
refers to having the reference number appear on the base line of text, not
to being on the Internet. Done in this way a new command does not have to
be made for a custom \onlinecite{...} built for use with natbib like the
\onlinecite{...} command that works with REVTeX 4.1. So 2) this avoids the
problem of LaTeX2HTML 1.71 not "recognizing" the citenum variable or command
that was used in the custom-built \onlinecite{...} command! Furthermore
when using natbib and plainnat.bst it appeared that I obtained
similar-looking references in my bibliography without using the
revtex-custom.bib file discussed at
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes
on the Internet.
Now I discuss a different problem of an internal hyperlink in my table of
contents, which is called "Contents," to "Bibliography" not working. That is
in a .tex file the statements \tableofcontents and \bibliography{MyBib},
where MyBib.bib is a file with the fictitious name MyBib.bib containing
reference data, produced A) the hyperlinked entry "Bibliography" in
"Contents" and B) the heading "Bibliography" appearing in the .dvi and .html
files corresponding to where the equivalent of \bibliography{MyBib} was
placed in the .tex file. But in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71
clicking on that hyperlink did not "take" me to the "Bibliography" heading
above the list of references in my document.
Here is a "workaround" solution for that problem. With .html file open in a
Web browser one can right-button-click on its contents and select "View
Document Source" or something similar to that. In my Konqueror Web browser
that opened a text editor, in my case the text editor called Kate. Then I
could see the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code for that .html file.
For the fictitious file name MyFile.html it looked equivalent to this at the
"Bibliography" entry in the "Contents:"
<LI><A NAME="tex2html139"
HREF="MyFile.html#SECTION00700000000000000000>Bibliography</A>
</UL>
. Then at the section of my document headed by "Bibliography" the HTML code
looked equivalent to this:
<P>
<H2><A NAME="SECTIONREF">Bibliography</A>
</H2>
......
In this case replacing "SECTIONREF" with "SECTION00700000000000000000" and
then saving the file in the text editor Kate was probably enough to make the
"Bibliography" internal hyperlink in "Contents" work. I wanted to have
Bibligraphy numbered in both locations, too, since it was not numbered for
me by using the -show_section_numbers option in my latex2html command. So
in addition I changed "Bibliography" to "6 Bibliography" in each of the two
locations in the above document source code. Is there a LaTeX command one
can use to make that "Bibliography" internal hyperlink in "Contents" work
without the need to edit the HTML document source code in the .html file
produced by LaTeX2HTML 1.71? Adding something like
\label{Refs}
\section{Bibliography}
ahead of \bibliography{MyBib} I think resulted in hyperlinked "Bibliography"
being listed twice in "Contents" and probably also with two instances of
"Bibliography" appearing further down in the document, in each case doubling
that I don't want.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:39 AM
To: <latex2html at tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] In my LaTeX2HTML-produced,.html file the references don't
look good. What am I missing?
> Hello again. I want to explain one thing. That is although I didn't use
> BibTeX during the ten years before this one, I am not sure if I ever used
> it myself; it is possible someone might have shown me something about it
> or that I might have used it in the early 1990s or 1980s; but it is also
> possible that I didn't ever use BibTeX myself before this year.---I'm not
> sure.
>
> Pat
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:41 AM
> To: <latex2html at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: In my LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html file the references don't
> look good. What am I missing?
>
>> Hello again. I found a good hint for what one of my troubles could have
>> been from Erwin at
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/d2a363b56272c543/4553d7b2e2ef9db9?show_docid=4553d7b2e2ef9db9.
>> He found that the bibliographic style file plainnat.bst of Natbib could
>> be used to avoid a problem between Natbib and apsrev4-1.bst. I
>> substituted plainnat.bst for apsrev4-1.bst in my .tex file using the
>> package natbib and gratefully obtained a not perfect, but reasonably
>> good-looking set of references in the .html (HyperText Markup Language)
>> file produced by LaTeX2HTML. The custom \onlinecite{..} command did not
>> work in the .html file, though, to put automatically numbered reference
>> numbers on the base line of text. My "workaround" solution for that was
>> to change textual references like, as a not necessarily real example for
>> discussion purposes, "according to reference \onlinecite{RAT92}" to
>> "according to the superscripted reference$^{\cite{RAT92}}$". That is in
>> my .tex document I changed all of the \onlinecite{...} commands, intended
>> for reference numbers to be on the base line of text, to instead
>> superscripted numerical citings of references.
>>
>> Not having written any of the codes for the software packages I have been
>> discussing here, I give my thinking, reasoning, and guessing to attempt
>> to explain the results I mentioned in the above, first paragraph. First
>> compare the dates of the software I used:
>>
>> LaTeX2HTML 1.71 (year 2008, I think)
>> Within it the file /usr/share/latex2html/styles/natbib.perl is internally
>> dated with 2001/11/08 or 2001/11/8, which I guess might mean November 8,
>> 2001 (Here in the United States such a date could be numerically written
>> as, for example 11/8/01 or maybe 11/8/2001.).
>>
>> LaTeX 2e (September 24, 2009)
>>
>> The file natbib.sty of Natbib 8.31a (November 7, 2009)
>>
>> The bibliographic style file apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1 (for February
>> 12, 2010 Physical Review). In REVTeX 4.1 some changes were introduced
>> compared to I think an earlier version of REVTeX which I guess might have
>> been version 4 of it.
>>
>> Also I compared the appearance of one reference in .bbl files produced
>> with LaTeX and BibTeX using both plainnat.bst of Natbib 8.31a and
>> apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1. The .bbl file produced using apsrev4-1.bst
>> contained a number of the commands or variables which LaTeX2HTML
>> "referred to" as undefined commands, such as BibitemOpen, BibitemShut,
>> citenamefont, bibnamefont, bibfnamefont, bibfield, bibinfo, and
>> href at noop; for the same test reference the .bbl file produced using
>> plainnat.bst did not contain any of those commands or variables. So my
>> guess is that those new commands or variables are associated with REVTeX
>> 4.1 in the year 2010 or perhaps slightly earlier, which is too new for
>> the year-2008 LaTeX2HTML or the year-2001 file natbib.perl it contained
>> to have accommodated them.
>>
>> Also following another hint from Satsuma at
>> http://texblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/natbib-multiple-reference-citation/
>> for citenum being undefined, he or she mentioned that one should obtain a
>> year-2007 version of natbib.sty to replace a year-2003 version of it (But
>> in the year 2011 there is a year-2009 version of that file available, as
>> I listed its date above.). So in the text editor Kate I looked inside he
>> file natbib.sty of Natbib 8.31a and found that citenum is defined with a
>> new command in that file. Copying that file from in my case the
>> directory /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/natbib to the directory containing
>> my .tex files, similar to what Satsuma did with a year-2007 version of
>> nabib.sty, unfortunately did not result in LaTeX2HTML "recognizing"
>> citenum in a .tex file. So I suppose that LaTeX2HTML 1.71 may not have
>> been built to accommodate the variable or command citenum in a .tex file.
>>
>> Professor Ross Moore or anyone else knowledgeable of the internal code of
>> LaTeX2HTML 1.71 and the software packages it can accommodate is welcome
>> to correct me here. But if my reasoning, thinking, and some guessing are
>> correct here, I suggest that the next version of LaTeX2HTML be built to
>> accommodate citenum in a .tex file and the various variables or commands
>> BibitemOpen, BibitemShut, citenamefont, bibnamefont, bibfnamefont,
>> bibfield, bibinfo, and href at noop in a .bbl file, which I supposed may
>> have been produced in my .bbl file as a result of using the bibliographic
>> style file apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1.
>>
>> But in the near future, if one is not too particular in trying to exactly
>> duplicate the referencing style of apsrev4-1.bst of REVTeX 4.1, for use
>> with LaTeX2HTML plainnat.bst can serve as a reasonable, but not exact,
>> functional substitute. With the command \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{} for use
>> with natbib in a .tex file, the use of plainnat.bst can produce
>> automatically numbered numerical superscripts corresponding to, for
>> example,$^{\cite{RAT92}}$ in the text and numbers on the base line in the
>> bibliography of the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML, similar, but
>> exactly like what the use of apsrev4-1.bst would produce. With
>> LaTeX2HTML 1.71 I suggest using only superscripts for automatically
>> numbered referencing. Allow me to oversimplfiy things somewhat here;
>> more details and Internet references are given in my previous letter in
>> this chain of e-mail letters; besides, it is possible I might miss some
>> of the details here myself. For publication in Physical Review journals,
>> books, or other journals in which simple numerical superscripts are used
>> for reference citations, one might use
>> \documentclass[prb,longbibliography,12pt]{revtex4-1},
>> \bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}, and \bibliography{MyBib}, where MyBib.bib
>> is the file containing your reference data for your document's
>> bibliography; from a .dvi file produced by LaTeX it should be possible to
>> print those references along with the rest of the document onto paper.
>> And for online or computer versions of documents and publications with
>> internal and external hyperlinks one might use
>> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article},
>> \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib},
>> \usepackage{....,doi,hyperref,hypernat}, \bibpunct{]{]{,}{s}{},
>> \bibliographystyle{plainnat}, \bibliography{MyBib,revtex-custom}, where
>> the contents of a file revtex-custom.bib, including REVTeX 4.1 controls,
>> are discussed at
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes.
>> It might be necessary to experiment with the order of the packages in a
>> \usepackage{........} statement to avoid errors.
>>
>> There are still a few things that I haven't gotten to work satisfactorily
>> yet. One of them is with multiple reference numbers as one superscript
>> always being in numerical order. And I haven't checked to see whether
>> the compression worked correctly or not, for example
>> references(superscript 1,2,3,4) becoming references(superscript 1-4).
>> But, when necessary, those cases can be manually edited in the .tex file
>> to produce what you desire, as mentioned at
>> http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=8897. I have
>> some unwanted pairs of side-by-side parentheses in .my .dvi file or
>> unwanted letters like a, b, etc., in my .html file sometimes appearing in
>> some references in my bibliography corresponding to sometimes when I have
>> \htmladdnormallink{http://..../}{http://....../} in my .tex file. My
>> table of contents doesn't show all four levels of chapter-and-sectioning
>> in the .html file that are shown in the corresponding .dvi file. And my
>> internal hyperlink in the table of contents for "Bibliography" isn't
>> working for me in the .html file.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pat_s at hotmail.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:32 AM
>> To: <latex2html at tug.org>
>> Subject: In my LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html file the references don't look
>> good. What am I missing?
>>
>>> Hello. I have been using:
>>>
>>> the September 24, 2009 version of LaTeX 2e,
>>> BibTeX 0.99b,
>>> by the command \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib} the natbib software
>>> package with the options sort&compress and with the additional command
>>> \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{} (similar to at
>>> http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/bibliographies on the
>>> Internet),
>>> the apsrev4-1.bst bibliographic style file of REVTeX 4.1 called in a
>>> .tex-file command of the form \bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}, and
>>> LaTeX2HTML 1.71
>>>
>>> in an openSUSE-11.4, Linux operating system. This is my first attempt to
>>> try to produce a letter for distribution to some other people which uses
>>> automatically numbered references, figures, tables, and equations and
>>> which uses a .bib, bibliography file external to my .tex file; for that
>>> matter I may not have even used BibTeX before this attempt.
>>>
>>> My use of several commands with natbib followed the advice of I think
>>> Daniel Els at
>>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15677/revtex-4-1-bibliography-style-in-other-classes.
>>> Similar to the procedure mentioned at
>>> http://www.wujiewen.com/faq/content/2/33/en/how-to-use-latex2html-to-convert-my-paper-to-webpages.html, I
>>> performed program executions of the following forms, here using the
>>> fictitious name MyFile:
>>>
>>> latex MyFile.tex
>>> bibtek MyFile
>>> latex MyFile.tex
>>> latex MyFile.tex
>>> latex2html............MyFile.tex
>>> latex2html............MyFile.tex
>>> .
>>> For my .bib-file entry
>>>
>>> @article{RAT92,
>>> author="M. Rath and L. Pauling",
>>> title="",
>>> journal={J. Orthomolecular Medicine},
>>> volume="{\bf 7}",
>>> number="1",
>>> pages="5",
>>> year="1992"}
>>>
>>> BibTeX and/or LaTeX produced in the .bbl, output file
>>>
>>> \bibitem [{\citenamefont {Rath}\ and\ \citenamefont
>>> {Pauling}(1992)}]{RAT92}%
>>> \BibitemOpen
>>> \bibfield {author} {\bibinfo {author} {\bibfnamefont
>>> {M.}~\bibnamefont
>>> {Rath}}\ and\ \bibinfo {author} {\bibfnamefont {L.}~\bibnamefont
>>> {Pauling}},\
>>> }\href at noop {} {\bibfield {journal} {\bibinfo {journal} {J.
>>> Orthomolecular
>>> Medicine},\ }\textbf {\bibinfo {volume} {{\bf 7}}},\ \bibinfo
>>> {pages} {5}
>>> (\bibinfo {year} {1992})}\BibitemShut {NoStop}%
>>>
>>> and in the .dvi (DeVice-Independent), output file
>>>
>>> [22] M. Rath and L. Pauling, J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 7, 5, (1992).
>>>
>>> with the volume number 7 in a bold typeface.
>>>
>>> But LaTeX2HTML, executed by a command of the form
>>>
>>> latex2html -nonavigation -no_math -html_version 3.2,math -split 0
>>> MyFile.tex
>>>
>>> , correspondingly produced in its output, .html (HyperText Markup
>>> Language) file
>>>
>>> 22 author author M. Rath -
>>> bibinfo author L. Pauling,#18543#> journal journal J. Orthomolecular
>>> Medicine,#18056#>volume 7,
>>> bibinfo pages 5 (year 1992)NoStop
>>>
>>> instead of something close to what appeared in the .dvi file, and in a
>>> terminal program from which LaTeX2HTML was executed the following
>>> messages:
>>>
>>> Unknown commands: citenamefont captionsetup bibfnamefont citenum enquote
>>> ed bibnamefont BibitemShut ( href_at_noon BibitemOpen
>>> bibfield < natexlib bibinfo
>>> .
>>> Note that among the commands "reported" as unknown by LaTeX2HTML,
>>> citenamefont, bibfnamefont, bibnamefont, BibitemShut, as well as
>>> BibitemOpen, bibfield, and bibinfo all appear in the entry of the .bbl
>>> file which LaTeX2HTML is supposed to be using. And it appears from the
>>> .html output file that LaTeX2HTML did indeed "read" M. Rath, L. Pauling,
>>> J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 7, 5, and 1992 from the .bbl file. The
>>> command or software package citenum was used in my .tex file in the
>>> command \newcommand{\onlinecite}[1]{\hspace{-1 ex}
>>> \nocite{#1}\citenum{#1}}, following advice from
>>> http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=8897. The
>>> purpose of that command was to allow the use of this custom
>>> \onlinecite{...} command in text so that reference numbers could appear
>>> on the base line of text, rather than as superscripts dictated by the
>>> "s" for superscript in the .tex-file command \bibpunct{}{}{,}{s}{}. As
>>> far as just the correct reference numbers appearing was concerned, that
>>> custom \onlinecite{..} command worked for me in the .dvi file produced
>>> by LaTeX, but not in the .html file produced by LaTeX2HTML, perhaps
>>> because LaTeX2HTML did not "recognize" citenum in the \newcommand.... in
>>> my .tex file to define the custom \onlinecite{..} command (Instead in
>>> the .html file the reference "KEY" for a reference appeared [RAT92 is
>>> the reference key in the .bib-file entry I discussed earlier here.]; it
>>> was desired to have had an internally hyperlinked reference number there
>>> in the .html file corresponding to a .tex-file command of the form
>>> \onlinecite{KEY}.). I also used captionsetup in my .tex file in the
>>> command
>>> \captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty,labelsep=none} along with
>>> \usepackage{.....,caption,....}.
>>>
>>> Following a suggestion posted by Professor Ross Moore for a different
>>> problem than mine in the Internet thread which includes
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/latex2html@tug.og/msg02874.html, but might
>>> be in a later reply to that message posted on that Web page, I found the
>>> file /usr/share/doc/packages/latex2html/dot.latex2hmtl-init and in it
>>> after "###Other global variables" entered a comment line of my own with
>>> a # at its beginning and the pair of statements:
>>>
>>> if($DO_INCLUDE) {$DO_INCLUDE .= ':bbl'}
>>> else{ $DO_INCLUDE = 'bbl'};
>>>
>>> . Did I enter those lines in the correct file and in an acceptable
>>> location in that file? But unfortunately the result of such entry was no
>>> noticeable improvement for me in the bibliographic entries in the .html
>>> file produced from the .bbl file by the program LaTeX2HTML. What did I
>>> miss in all of this that 1) prevented the references in the .html file
>>> from looking as good as they did in the .dvi file and 2) prevented the
>>> custom \onlinecite{..} command from working in the .html file?
>>>
>>> Pat
>>
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