Re: behavior of @math with HTML output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 01:52:57PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 02:28:54PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:32:00PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > l2h and t4h settings still output "@var" literally even with
> > > '-c CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH=1'.  I'm going to spend some time
> > > investigating this.
> > 
> > I think that I fixed it.  CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH is set in the default
> > case if HTML_MATH is set, but it was not used.  Now it is used, but only
> > if the LaTeX conversion is on, so the following call should allow
> > to have @-commands expanded with the use of tex4ht: 
> > 
> > texi2any --html -c HTML_MATH=t4h -c T4H_MATH_CONVERSION=latex
> > 
> > This may call for using latex type of conversion for tex4ht in the
> > default case.
> 
> That was quick.  Is this change only for tex4ht or for latex2html as well?
> Can it easily be extended to latex2html?

Should be done for latex2html too.  I still haven't finished handling
@latex blocks correctly, but should be done soon.

> latex2html output appears to work well.  I haven't had good
> results with tex4ht, even without @var, but this appears to be
> the right way of doing things, provided tex4ht works.  (I found
> @math{@var{foo}\over@var{bar}} output as
> 
> <span 
> class="cmti-7">foo</span>
> <span 
> class="cmti-7">bar</span>
> 
> and the square root operation was output as a blurry image.  It probably
> depends on settings and versions.)
> 
> tex4ht still appears to get updates:
> 
> https://svn.gnu.org.ua/viewvc/tex4ht/trunk/
> 
> although I hear it has been a difficult piece of software to maintain
> since the death of its original author in 2009, so problems or drawbacks
> with tex4ht may not ever be resolved.