Changes upto v0.3

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Changes upto v0.3

Image Recycling

Images for equations, tables, figures, special characters etc. generated by the translator are recognized during subsequent runs. The user is then asked whether old images should be reused (or whether the old images should be deleted and regenerated). This offers tremendous improvements in speed after an initial successful translation.

Cross-References Between (Local or Remote) Documents

Cross-references between two or more documents (possibly on remote locations) can be established via symbolic labels which are independent of the physical realization of these documents.

Such cross-references will be maintained with a simple re-translation even after one or more of the documents have been broken into different physical parts or moved.

The mechanism is based on the new commands externallabels and externalref which are an extension of the simple label-ref pairs.

New Options

external_images: This provides hypertext links to where generated images (for equations, tables, figures etc) are stored externally. (The default is to ``inline'' generated images in the main body of the text.)
ascii_mode: This switches all the navigation icons to their ascii equivalents. Also generated images are stored externally as with the external_images option above. The ascii_mode option makes documents more portable as it allows them to be viewed on browsers that do not support inlined images.

Special Command Style File

A style file html.sty is now included in the distribution. This contains the definitions (syntax) of some special LaTeX commands mainly for providing external hypertext links. This should be included in LaTeX files that use the any hypermedia extensions.

Minor Changes and Bug Fixes

Equations, equation arrays and theorems are now numbered correctly even when they are individually passed to LaTeX for processing.
Fixed problem with label commands appearing in section headings.
Fixed problems with verbatim environments, bibliography items, generated file names, the options nolatex and no_navigation, the thanks command, the name of an HTML tag (<HEAD>),
The appearance of footnotes has been improved.
Some inconsistencies in the pstoxbm and pstogif scripts have been fixed.
Parts of the documentation have been rewritten, restructured and some new sections have been added.

The following were contributed by Robert S. Thau <[email protected]>:

New Texexpand

This fixes problems with the standard version and handles the inclusion of style files which need to processed by the translator. Appropriate modifications to the main script were also made to work with new version of texexpand.

Handling of Raw TeX

Added support for simple raw TeX commands such as special and simple instances of def

. For the messier cases, the definition is scooped up and moved to the preamble. This allows the translator to handle the simple, but nonstandard, postscript figure inclusion macros as well as an awful lot of other stuff done with gratuitous defs.

More Options

dont_include: This can be used to specify style files that should not be included in the translation.

Other Changes

Added support for nested math mode expressions and general list environments in order to handle the document from Hell!!!.
Fixed problems in the translation of bibitems, the substitution of macro definitions, and the processing of unrecognized commands in the preamble.

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Leon Kos
Tue Mar 19 09:29:01 MET 1996