Re: tlug: latex2html with Linux

[Dmytro Kovalev <Dmytro.Kovalev@example.com>]

Returning to some old discussion:
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:


>>>>> "Dmytro" == Dmytro Kovalev <kovald@example.com> writes:
    Dmytro> That's make no difference. Still the same multiple
    Dmytro> chapters cut in parts and pieces ;(

    Dmytro> That's making me to believe it's a locking issue. If it is
    Dmytro> so, is there any way to overcome it or at least are the
    Dmytro> any information on it? Can I force locking in some way?

    Stephen> OK, you may be right, then.  Locking on Linux is very
    Stephen> complicated, since no one system is universally used and
    Stephen> several systems are implemented along with emulations.

So this issue is resolved now -- it was a Linux specific and it was
about file locking. 

Below there's included a message from latex2html list which helped me
to fix my problem.

Still, even I understood the problem now, I'm not quite sure I
understand *all* the staff and am a little bit confused...

1. The same text (koi8-u) parsed well on SunOS, but fails on Linux
(OK, this is flocking issue, I'm OK with this)

2. Text of the same structure -- English original -- parsed OK on
Linux, but koi8-u counterpart fails on the same Linux. Is it that
flocking problem is triggered somehow by codeset, or what?

I'm not looking for answer actually. Just a mere rhetoric...  In case
anybody meets the same problem - from the post below it doesn't seem
to be language-specific.


- dmytro



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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:54:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Greg Gamble <gregg@example.com>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Torsten Wellner wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I have a document in book style and I have defined several levels of
> segmentation. My latex document starts with a "\chapter" command and it
> follow some "\section" commands. If I translate the latex document with
> the latex2html parser ("Version 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) ") I
> get twice the first section. And I suppose this is the reason for some
> errors and warnings displayed by the debug option.
> 
> What can I do to avoid this behaviour?

Do you have RedHat 5.? Linux? If so, the following may fix your problem
... it did for me ... I forget who suggested it originally ...

in the Perl file `latex2html' of the 98.1p1 distribution 
in `sub write_string_out' add the line 

        close SINPUT;

after

    unless ($pid = fork) {

(which is line 1563, for me).

  Regards,
  Greg Gamble
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:


>>>>> "Dmytro" == Dmytro Kovalev <kovald@example.com> writes:
    Dmytro> That's make no difference. Still the same multiple
    Dmytro> chapters cut in parts and pieces ;(

    Dmytro> That's making me to believe it's a locking issue. If it is
    Dmytro> so, is there any way to overcome it or at least are the
    Dmytro> any information on it? Can I force locking in some way?

    Stephen> OK, you may be right, then.  Locking on Linux is very
    Stephen> complicated, since no one system is universally used and
    Stephen> several systems are implemented along with emulations.

    Stephen> You'd have to look through the latex2html code to get any
    Stephen> idea of what might be wrong.  I have no idea what forcing
    Stephen> locking would mean for latex2html.

    Dmytro> As I wrote before - same latex2html works on SunOS with
    Dmytro> the same text. That's suspicious...

    Stephen> Perl is a very complicated piece of software, and the IPC
    Stephen> parts are often buggy, not necessarily due to Perl's
    Stephen> fault.  I would suggest upgrading Perl in any case.  Sun
    Stephen> may very well have better locale support than Linux, too,
    Stephen> or more robust lack of it ....

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