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

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

URLs cannot contain literal spaces, but  encoded spaces (by %20) work in URLs.

—Ettore 

Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA
https://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov

> On Aug 28, 2022, at 11:38, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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