[OS X TeX] TeXShop 5.01 - html generation demo not working - fix

[Murray Eisenberg]

> On 28 Aug2022, at 11:01 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying the Fourier demo to generate and view html using TeX4ht, but I am not getting a generated .html, and although the TeXShop html viewer window opens and has title
> consisting of the path and the name Fourier.html,
> 
> 	- the window contents are blank, and
> 
> 	- no Fourier.html was generated.
> 
> I did the setup detailed under “Updating Your Macintosh” in the “Preparing-for-the-Demo.pdf”.
> 
> Then, following instructions in TeXShop5-and-Interactive-Documents.pdf, I changed the source Fourier.tex first line to:
> 
> % !TEX TS-program = TeX4ht
> 
> and when that alone gave the above non-result, I also changed the engine in the drop down menu to TeX4ht before pressing the Typeset button again.
> 
> What’s wrong?
> 
> 
> 
>> On 26 Aug2022, at 11:18 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu <mailto:koch at uoregon.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> …. TeXShop 5.01 comes with an elaborate demo of recent features, as explained in the Changes document.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

CORRECTION : the html _IS_ being generated, but still the TeXShop web viewer is showing an empty window contents.

CAUSE OF ISSUE:

I had moved the Demo folder to:

	/Users/theuser/Documents/TeX_documents/TeXShop\ Demo

And so I typeset the file:

	/Users/theuser/Documents/TeX_documents/TeXShop_Demo/Fourier-for-TeXShop/Fourier.tex

The issue is that the path has a space in it, which the web viewer does not like!

FIX:

When I changed the name of the moved folder to TeXShop_Demo, with no space, everything worked fine.


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