Changes up to v95

Much improved inlined equation baseline alignment!

(Thanks to Mark Segal <segal@spud.asd.sgi.com>) Inlined equation bitmaps are now aligned correctly depending on whether they contain subscripts, superscripts etc.

Support for internationalization

(Thanks to Martin Boyer <gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>) A global variable LANGUAGE_TITLES can now be used to change the language in which some section titles (eg ``Table of Contents'') are printed. It is also very easy to add support for more languages.

Compatibility with Perl 5

More efficient implementation

There has been a major overhaul of the way the source text is parsed and analyzed in order to reduce the memory requirements of this process.

This has been achieved by spawning off separate Unix processes to deal with each of the input'ed or include'd files. As each process terminates all the space that it used is reclaimed. Asynchronous communication between processes takes place using the Unix DataBase Management system (DBM or NDBM) which should be present on your system.

To take advantage of these changes, it is necessary to split the source text into more than one files which can be assembled using the LaTeX input or include commands.

``Off-line'' Image Generation

Two new options -no_images and -images_only allow ``off-line'' image conversion. The advantage of using these options is that the translation can be allowed to finish even when there are problems with image conversion. In addition it may be possible to fix manually any image conversion problems and then run LaTeX2HTML again just to integrate the new images without having to translate the rest of the text. More instructions on how to do this are included in the ``Troubleshooting'' section of the LaTeX2HTML manual.

Can now use either the pbmplus or the netpbm libary. If netpbm is used then it is no longer necessary to get and install giftrans in order to generate transparent inlined images.

Also, a new option map=<image map URL> in the command htmlimage can turn an included postscript image into an active image map.

New options

-no_images

Do not attempt to produce any inlined images. The missing images can be generated "off-line" by restarting LaTeX2HTML with the option -images_only.

-images_only

Try and convert any inlined images that were left over from previous runs of LaTeX2HTML.

-no_reuse

Do not reuse images generated during previous translations. (This will enable the initial interactive session during which the user is asked whether to reuse the old directory, delete its contents or quit)

-no_subdir

Place the generated HTML files in the current directory. The default behaviour is to create (or reuse) another file directory.

-ps_images

Use links to external postscript images rather than inlined GIF images.

Several small changes and bug fixes

• It is no longer necessary to get Giftrans if NETPBM is available
• Fixed problems with support for german.sty
• Fixed problems with multiple bibliographies. Each bibliography is now treated as a separate section.
• Added support for ``dotless i's and j's''.
• Fixed to resolve figure and table numbers when captions contain accented characters.
• Added support for hierarchical indices with duplicate index keys
• Fixed problem with HTML encodings of ISO-LATIN1 characters creeping into converted images of figures and tables.
• Added new global variable PAPERSIZE to make it easier to change the default behavior when converting large images
• A new configuration variable (TRANSPARENT_IMAGES) can be used to stop any inlined images generated from "figure" environments from being transparent.
• Fixed problem which occurs when getcwd.pl is not part of the Perl library.
• The option -address "" is now valid.
• Fixed a problem with tables of contents.
• Fixed problem with the use of the finger command when trying to find out the name of the user.
• Added some support for tabbing environments.
• HTML heading elements no longer contain other markup.
• Fixed problem with optional argument in citation commands
• Added some more support for LaTeX2e.
• Fixed problem with displayed equations forcing all the remaining equations to be displayed.
• Fixed bug with converting postscript images containing more than 256 colors.