[tex4ht] Three questions about errors when using mk4ht to create MathJax compatible files

[Steven Dunbar]

Thanks to Michal Hoftich and Karl Berry for gracious answers to my questions.

1.   In reply to Michal's answer, I can't see that I am explicitly using NoFonts on the command line or in the configuration file.  Perhaps I am using it implicitly somehow.  I will continue to investigate, perhaps I will find it or something equivalent.  (I don't need accented characters, so I don't need to use this feature.) I have a clumsy work-around by re-using the old *.css file, so good enough until I figure out what is happening.

2.  In reply to Karl's answer:  It's probably a Good Thing that the old wrapper scripts disappeared, for me at least.  The disappearance of the wrappers forced me out of my rut, and made me learn how to do something I should have learned a long time ago.  I'm just glad to know that the package or my installation of it was not damaged.

3.  Still no answer on why the multitude of complaints from the shell when I run
mk4ht xhmlatex $1 "/path/to/ht5mathjax"
I will continue to study, learn, think and watch.  Maybe the answer will become apparent....

Thanks! -- Steve Dunbar

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From: Steven Dunbar
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 5:57 AM
To: tex4ht at tug.org
Subject: Three questions about errors when using mk4ht to create MathJax compatible files

In mid-summer, I upgraded to the most recent Fedora 19 distribution of
Linux.  As part of the upgrade, I installed the corresponding 2013 TeXLive
package from Fedora.

Previously (with Fedora 17 and the previous TeXLive version, probably
2011 or possibly 2012), I had used mzlatex to process LaTeX source files to XHTML
1.1 plus MathML 2.0.

After the upgrade I no longer had mzlatex as a script.  After some
searching and learning, I started using the command
mk4ht xhmlatex $1 "/path/to/ht5mathjax"
where ht5mathjax.cfg is the configuration file suggested by Michal
Hoftich and William Hammond.

This command mostly works,  it creates the an html/MathJax file that
is readable with all browsers I have access to.  However, there are several
problems:

1.  Most text formatting no longer exists, for instance, no boldface, a
font change using \texttt{} results in a the same roman font as all
other text, and the macro
\newcommand{\sectiontitle}[1]{\begin{center} {\Large #1} \end{center}}
results in left-justified text at the same size as all other
text.

After some investigating, I see that the old mzlatex processing
created a *.css file of size 6,335 characters, while the new command
creates a *.css file of size 15 characters.  Substituting the old
*.css file restores the text formatting.

Question:  Why doesn't the new command create an appropriate CSS
file? How can I force the processing to create an appropriate CSS?

2.  During the processing, I get a lot of error messages of the form:
tex4ht.c (2012-07-25-19:36 kpathsea)
tex4ht
--- error --- improper command line
tex4ht [-f<path-separator-ch>]in-file[.dvi]

This scrolls past too many times to count, the many identical errors fly by.
But there don't seem to be any problems with the *.html files.

Question:  What's happening?  How to fix?

3.  At the end of the processing, I get the following:
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: retry: No child processes
/usr/bin/t4ht: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
--- error --- failed to execute command

Again, there don't seem to be any problems with the *.html files.

Question:  What's happening?  How to fix?


Thanks!

Steve Dunbar

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