[l2h] Using special characters

[Bob van der Poel]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 6:58 PM Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 6:03 PM Shigeharu TAKENO <shige at iee.niit.ac.jp>
> wrote:
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>> shige 06/06 2019
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>> bob at mellowood.ca wrote:
>> | represented by a
>> |
>> \latex{``\raisebox{.7em}{\rotatebox{270}{\textbf{(\raisebox{.5ex}{.}}}}''}
>> | \html{ 𝄐 }
>> | above a note.
>> |
>> | And this works perfectly for the generated PDF file. But, the html
>> doesn't
>> | work. For some reason it's generating
>> |
>> |   &#119056;
>> |
>> | so somehow I need to get rid of the "amp;" portion. I've tried quoting
>> the
>> | "&" with a "\" but that doesn't help. Thanks!
>>
>> If you want to write raw html code in your latex file, you should
>> use rawhtml environment provided in html package. Please try:
>>
>>
>>  \latex{``\raisebox{.7em}{\rotatebox{270}{\textbf{(\raisebox{.5ex}{.}}}}''}
>>  \html{\begin{rawhtml}𝄐\end{rawhtml}}
>>
>> Different ... but no cigars :) This generates 3 inverted "?" symbols. Not
> sure if this will come though on the mailing list, but the source says:
>
>  ��� above a note.
>
> No &# at all. Is the version of latex2html an issue perhaps. I'm no ubuntu 19.4 and for version I get:
>
>   bob$ latex2html --version
>   This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2019 (Released January 1, 2019)
>   by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
>
> Looks like I might need to use Ross' suggestion and post-process the .html file???
>
> I will ask that this be listed as a bug.

I have solved my particular problem by creating an image file and using
\includegraphics{}

Thanks for the help.


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