[OS X TeX] html.sty

Tue Mar 25 12:48:23 EDT 2014

I don¹t want to waste anybody¹s time: I know how to install the package.
More to your point, I¹d have to change the commands to use a more modern
package, but since I use this type of functionality nowhere else, nor
wrote the old file from scratch myself, it¹s not worth my time now.
One general point, though, is that LiveTex must have made some changes
recently. Still surprised by the complete lack of reaction from TexShop to
my trying to compile.
Nicolae 

On 3/25/14, 5:11, "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

>
>On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Nicolae Garleanu
><garleanu at haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Dick. I had found that html.sty was part of latex2html,
>>tried to use that (unsuccessfully, obviously) but pushed no further.
>>What stopped me from going too far was the knowledge that I had compiled
>>the file on the previous MBA, etc. Still confused about that, actually.
>>I¹ll look on my office computer, see what¹s happening there. And yes, I
>>must have remembered the miktex feature, no longer relevant to me.
>> 
>> As for point 2, sorry. I am using TexShop, compiling using the shortcut
>>command (Cmd-T), which calls pdflatex.
>> 
>> Nicolae
>>  
>> 
>> From: Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu>
>> Reply-To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Date: Monday, March 24, 2014 at 21:47
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] html.sty
>> 
>> Nicolae,
>> 
>> A huge amount of information on TeX has been indexed by Google. You can
>>often
>> answer you own questions easily by searching judiciously. According to
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369572/html-sty-and-latex2e
>> 
>> html.sty is part of the latex2html package.
>> 
>> Further searching found the following message from Karl Berry dated
>>August 23, 2013.
>> Karl is one of the main authors of TeX Live:
>> 
>> Thanks for your message.  No question that latex2html is a fine tool.
>> 
>> >>
>>  But as far as I know it cannot be included in TeX Live at present
>> 
>> >
>>  because it is not "self-locating", that is, its data files and
>> 
>> >
>>  sub-modules are expected to be found in a certain place on the system
>> 
>> >
>>  determined at compilation time.  I also have the impression that the
>> 
>> >
>>  output it generates may require web server configuration changes to
>>work
>> 
>> >
>>  well (/icons/ and the like).  I admit I'm not completely sure of either
>> 
>> > of those points.
>> So latex2html and html.sty are not in TeX Live. MacTeX installs the
>>complete TeX Live
>> distribution, a "canonical" distribution produced by TeX User Groups
>>across the world.
>> It contains tex4ht, a similar tool to convert LaTeX to HTML.
>> 
>> Downloading and installing "on the fly" is a feature of MikTeX in the
>>Windows world. The
>> related feature in TeX Live is tlmr, which doesn't work automatically.
>>Mac users should
>> use TeX Live Utility, which puts a Mac interface on top of tlmr, making
>>it very easy to use.
>> But it wouldn't give your html.sty because it only serves up software
>>in TeX Live.
>> 
>> The final question 2 is too vague to answer. Are you typesetting from
>>the command line, or
>> a front end, if a front end then which one, etc., etc.
>> 
>> Dick Koch
>> 
>>  
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Nicolae Garleanu
>><garleanu at haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> I installed MacTex on a new Air about three months ago, and today I
>>>wanted to compile for the first time (on the new computer) a file
>>>requiring html.sty. This was no issue with my previous Mac, but now the
>>>style file is not installed (I verified this using Help>Open Style File
>>>as well as by copying the style file from the internet in the folder
>>>with the file needing it, when it worked). I can solve the specific
>>>issue on my own, e.g., put the style file in the appropriate local
>>>folder, but I am wondering
>>> 	€ Why the file was not downloaded and installed on the fly (am I
>>>confused concerning this capability?). Perhaps because I already have
>>>the entire system, suggesting that this particular style file is no
>>>longer included, maybe because it is obsolete (and replaced with what?)
>>> 	€ Why nothing happens when I try to compile. No error, log file is
>>>completely empty, etc. I can¹t help feeling that I messed something
>>>somewhere.
>>> Thank you.
>>> Nicolae
>
>Howdy,
>
>Do you know what features of the html package you are using? If it's
>something like live links you can use the hyperref package. Of course the
>commands may look different so you'll have to edit the file.
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Herb Schulz
>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
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