On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:37:47AM -0400, Neal D. Becker wrote: > Thanks so much for including latex2html! > > Just 1 problem. It's japanese!!! > > /usr/bin/latex2html is actually jlatex2html (it has a japanese patch). > > I figured out how to fix titles back to english, but dates are still in > japanese. > > <rant> > OK, if you take a prominent package, and patch it, and then install it > replacing the original package, you are obligated to clearly document how > to restore the orignal behavior. It appears this japanese patch isn't > documented at all. > <\rant> > > Anyone know how to fix this? This is the first time I've even heard of this problem. An indicator of the size of the userbase for the latex2html we ship?

Please file a bug report in bugzilla so that we can track this issue properly.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:13:29PM -0400, Ed Hill wrote: > > This is the first time I've even heard of this problem. An indicator > > of the size of the userbase for the latex2html we ship? > > Hi Tim, > > Yes, I agree that latex2html users are few in number. But does that > make us worthless? I hope not! ;-) My point was more that perhaps latex2html users don't use the latex2html that we actually ship, but a different version.

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: >On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:27:51PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: >>On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:13:29PM -0400, Ed Hill wrote: >> >>>>This is the first time I've even heard of this problem. An indicator >>>>of the size of the userbase for the latex2html we ship? >>> >>>Hi Tim, >>> >>>Yes, I agree that latex2html users are few in number. But does that >>>make us worthless? I hope not! ;-) >> >>My point was more that perhaps latex2html users don't use the >>latex2html that we actually ship, but a different version. Or even a completely different application such as TeX4ht. In general, the TeX distributions that have shipped with linux distros have lagged behind the popular Win32 distros (fpTeX and MikTeX). >Most likely. The TuG (TeX User Group) has been distributing >multi CD sets of all the TeX family of tools. > > http://tug.org/ > >Most of the serious TeX and LaTeX folk use bits on The Comprehensive >TeX Archive Network (CTAN) > > http://tug.org/ctan.html The TeX Live distribution from TuG includes TeX4ht. Anyone can download the .iso images -- there are 3 versions: 1. "demo" version that runs from the CD on the most popular platforms with the most popular packages 2. "install" CD with compressed binaries for more platforms 3. "live" ready to run DVD image with everything The unix code in TeX Live is based on teTeX. The TeX Live distro provides statically linked binaries that will run on most linux platforms. If you stick to the standard directory structure all you need to do is put the TeX tree somewhere on your filesystems and add the appropriate bin directory to your path. For example, you can mount the DVD image via the loop device, e.g., on /usr/TeX.

I've also been struggling, on and off, with latex2HTML. The version of it and netpbm that shipped with Red Hat 9 worked beautifully but all the Fedora versions that I've tried have been somewhere between buggy and awful. Your post prompted me to dig into the tetex SRPM which includes numerous latex2html packages that produce default japanese output as you've pointed out. So I'm working on an alternate tetex SRPM that doesn't include all the japanese junk. I'm building and testing it right now and I'll post a link as soon as I have a working version.