[tex4ht] Advice on where to start?

[Hefferon, Jim S.]

Michal,

Thanks for your reply.  I will try the debug option.

With respect to a minimal example, on my machine the file below gives this error.

jim at millstone:~/src/tmp$ make4ht jhtest.tex
[STATUS]  make4ht: Conversion started
[STATUS]  make4ht: Input file: jhtest.tex
[ERROR]   htlatex: Compilation errors in the htlatex run
[ERROR]   htlatex: Filename     Line    Message
[ERROR]   htlatex: ./jhtest.tex         6        Package biblatex Error: Patching 'endnotes' package failed.
[ERROR]   htlatex: Compilation errors in the htlatex run
[ERROR]   htlatex: Filename     Line    Message
[ERROR]   htlatex: ./jhtest.tex         6        Package biblatex Error: Patching 'endnotes' package failed.
[ERROR]   htlatex: Compilation errors in the htlatex run
[ERROR]   htlatex: Filename     Line    Message
[ERROR]   htlatex: ./jhtest.tex         6        Package biblatex Error: Patching 'endnotes' package failed.
[STATUS]  make4ht: Conversion finished
jim at millstone:~/src/tmp$


I have this year's TeX Live (not the Ubuntu version, the download it from the home site version), which I updated yesterday.

Thanks,
Jim

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{endnotes}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}


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From: Michal Hoftich <michal.h21 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 8:38
To: Hefferon, Jim S.
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Subject: Re: [tex4ht] Advice on where to start?

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Hi Jim,

> Thank you for the information, Karl.  I'm certainly expecting some debugging but I was at a loss as to where to dig in.
>

The tutorial is still incomplete, unfortunately. There is some
information about debugging here:
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kodymirus.cz%2Ftex4ht-doc%2FFAQandTroubleshooting.html%23faq-and-troubleshooting&data=05%7C01%7Cjhefferon%40smcvt.edu%7Cfd673b21c9a04879655808dab5bcbb7e%7Ccba7935edf564a6e9e66e8b9adbfaba4%7C0%7C0%7C638022119451885347%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=31WxdMRFySer%2FbosgYB%2F%2FUKmPnHDp05aIq%2BWHUjqt1w%3D&reserved=0

As Karl and Nasser said, you can try this command

$ make4ht -a debug -m draft book.tex

It should stop on errors and print the full terminal output. I think
that in your case, the issue is caused by some package. I can see a
clash between BibLaTeX and Endnotes, which I can confirm happens, and
I will try to fix that. But there must be also some other issue, as it
shouldn't result in a fatal error.

Could you make a MWE that produces this fatal error a post it here?

Best regards,
Michal