On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>
>> Spoke too soon as the broken images under Ubuntu magically fixed
>> themselves when I regenerated the docs (no longer convinced that was the
>> same problem).
Actually take that back again, the same problem was present in Ubuntu
until sometime in February (when an update of netbpm was issued, tracing
the fixes back upstream sufficiently far eventually locates the real
patch).
>> Anyway, cutting this long story short, managed to also find a RHEL/5
>> machine at Durham (thanks again to Alan Lotts), and the problem
>> finally became reproducable.
>>
>> The issue is known, see:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337181
>>
>> So nothing to do except look for an update to netbpm, or build it
>> ourselves.
>
> can we turn off interlace option? Or switch to generating png?
Yes and no. The only way to switch off interlacing is to modify the global
setup of latex2html (there's no command-line option). It's a simple
two-liner if we want to do this?
(PNG support is supposed to be available in latex2html "our versions", but
I couldn't get it to work).
> Can we take this opportunity to update latex2html to version 2002-2
> (http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latex2html/ - which doesn't seem to
> be much newer than 98.2 but does have a configure script)?
Maybe, it seems to do a reasonable job of some documents I've tried, but
we still have a load of documents that require the old latex2html 97.1
version, never mind the 98.2 version (our latest), so we'd either have to
finally fix all the old documents
(http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun199.htx/node33.html),
or continue to carry two versions of latex2html. Not much gain.
> Or is there a better package out there for this sort of thing?
Not that I'm aware of, plus we're quite tied to latex2html, all the HTX
extensions would have to be ported, plus the parts of latex2html that we
use for HTML specific content.
I'd guess there's about 1 week of work to do the update from 98.2 to
2002.2
Peter.
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