[l2h] Website and documentation need fixes and updates

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Feb 23 16:19:09 CET 2012


Martin Walch <walch.martin at web.de> wrote:

> is someone able to make an update to the website and the documentation?
> 
> The website located at
> 
> http://www.latex2html.org/
> 
> fails loading three graphic files:
> http://www.latex2html.org/icons/l2h/next.png
> http://www.latex2html.org/icons/l2h/up.png
> http://www.latex2html.org/icons/l2h/prev.png
> 
> Also some of the graphics files that
> http://www.latex2html.org/icons/README.html
> is trying to load do not exist.

(i can't hack at the website...)

> Most of the hyperlinks on the whole website are old and dead.
> 
> These files in CVS contain *many* dead links:
> http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/README
> http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/FAQ
> http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/INSTALL
> http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/Changes
> http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/docs/*.tex
> 
> typo in http://www.latex2html.org/~latex2ht/user/FAQ:
> >change_begin 98.1
> >   One way LATEX2HTMLmay be obtained

so i thought to create a pdf version that people could read from ctan.

the manual sources don't work with pdftex, since they're hard set-up to
use dvips.  they don't work with latex because hyperref has changed
since they were created, and the source's reuse of a hyperref internal
macro longer works.  (actually, even if i hack the source to make latex
at least start, the same error as seen with pdftex bites in the same
way.)

so i tried distilling the manual.ps.gz from ctan.  that works (and is
tolerably readable both in gv and acrocr*p reader 9), but is built with
type 3 (read: metafont) fonts, so it's not really desirable.

in the circumstances, i've generated a version with type 1 fonts using
pkfix, and installed the pdf on ctan.

modulo propagation delays, you should find it at

  http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex2html/manual.pdf

expect it to take up to 24 hours to get to your "local" mirror (as
defined by the mirror-redirector used for mirror.ctan.org)

i appreciate that a pdf doesn't have qualities one would expect from an
updated html, but as i've outlined, i don't currently know how to create
a working version of that.

hth.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


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