[17085] in Athena Bugs
latex2html amazing bug, quick fix.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Counterman)
Mon Aug 23 16:54:51 1999
Message-Id: <199908232054.QAA104469@selenium.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:54:41 -0400
From: "Craig A. Counterman" <ccount@MIT.EDU>
latex2html doesn't work if run in a directory with a . in the name.
The problem is dvips, which with the -i argument and the -o argument,
mishandles the -o argument. dvips truncates the _path_ given for -o
as if it were a filename
E.g.
allegretto% dvips -S 1 -M -i -o /mit/ccount/www/6.013/images images.dvi
This is dvips 5.76 Copyright 1997 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 1999.08.23:1644' -> /mit/ccount/www/6.013/images
(-> /mit/ccount/www/6.001) <tex.pro>[1] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.002) <tex.pro>
[2] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.003) <tex.pro>[3] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.004)
<tex.pro>[4] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.005) <tex.pro>[5]
(-> /mit/ccount/www/6.006) <tex.pro>[6] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.007) <tex.pro>
[7] (-> /mit/ccount/www/6.008) <tex.pro>[8]
And it's created /mit/ccount/www/6.00*, rather than
/mit/ccount/www/6.013/images*
This may be a bug in dvips, but latex2html is where it's being a
problem. Noone in a course locker can use latex2html.
The fix is simple: put a dot in the name that latex2html asks dvips
to output:
< $IMAGE_PREFIX = ((defined $image_pre)? $image_pre : '_image');
---
> $IMAGE_PREFIX = ((defined $image_pre)? $image_pre : '_image.');
This could also be fixed in Override.pm, but I think this is good.
Let me know when this is fixed.
Thanks,
Craig
