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

[Murray Eisenberg]

Just when one gets seduced by TeX allowing spaces in path names, one gets bitten by the restriction that a URL cannot have an actual space in it!

> On 28 Aug2022, at 11:34 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Murray,
> 
> I ran into this problem too. I bet you copied tthe Demo folder and gave it a title with a space. Remove the space.
> 
> I thought about adding this warning to the document, but every little extra makes it harder to read. Leaving out the warning turns out to have been a mistake, and I'll put it back in the next time.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
>> On Aug 28, 2022, at 8:01 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?
>> 
> 

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