[l2h] Fwd: fw: Feature Request for Latex2HTML

[jos]

Hi Roland,

I just fixed this for someone else (leaving 
equation-image ALT text complete instead of 
shortening it), and it was easy.  In the latex2html script, I simply changed

     if ( length($alt) > 163 ) {

to

     if ( $ALTMAXLENGTH && length($alt) > $ALTMAXLENGTH-2 ) {

where I left $ALTMAXLENGTH undefined (for now), but implemented support for it.

Note, however, that there is a comment in the 
code saying that large ALT texts can "upset the 
DBM".  I am planning to try to fix this when it 
bites, but so far I don't think it has.  Maybe 
AnyDBM_File has evolved forward since that 
comment was written?  (Fingers crossed...)

This change is in my personal fork of l2h which can be found at

https://github.com/josmithiii/l2hmj

This is a merge of the l2h versions I know about, 
plus my own bugfixes, and where I plan to 
implement SIMPLE_MATH using MathJax when I have 
time to work on it.  Codevelopers welcome!

- Julius

At 02:17 AM 1/17/2012, Roland Stigge wrote:
>Hi!
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>I'm forwarding two suggestions by a Latex2HTML user.
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>Thanks for considering.
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>Roland
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>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:05:48 +0100
>From: Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de>
>To: Roland Stigge <stigge at antcom.de>
>Subject: fw: Feature Request for Latex2HTML
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>Hello Roland,
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>I've tried to contact the author referenced in the man page. Since I've got a
>mailer daemon, I guess that his mail address has 
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>it to him or the current maintainer? Below a copy of the message.
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>Thanks
>Sebastian
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>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:01:07 +0100
>From: Sebastian Humenda <shumenda at gmx.de>
>To: nikos at cbl.leeds.ac.uk
>Subject: Feature Request for Latex2HTML
>User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
>
>Hello,
>
>I've got to know that LaTeX2html is capable of creating HTML versions of LaTeX
>documents, leaving the mathematical expression 
>in the alt tag. This is the best
>way for visual impaired people to read 
>scientific/mathematical documents, since
>they haven't to deal with the whole LaTeX and can read the mathematical
>expressions in LaTeX nonetheless. There are just 
>two little things which should
>be corrected:
>1st Do not shorten longer alt tags with "...".
>2nd The line breaks of the source get lost, it's hard to read, they should be
>copied as well.
>
>Could these features be implemented?
>
>Thanks!
>Sebastian
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