Re: groff -Thtml bug

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:58:51AM +0100, Gaius Mulley wrote:

Hi Gaius,

> Hi Andries,
> 
> thanks for the bug report.  The bug in still present in the current
> cvs, in fact the current cvs ignores any generated images in the .TL.
> iirc this is because images are not allowed in-between title tags.

But of course formulas in the title of an article are not uncommon.

> However a work around would be to use the .HTL macro to set the
> text of the html title tag and then to produce a graphic title using
> eqn.

Thanks!

By the way, a wish-list item here would be for -Thtml to generate
output without images. As we notice, images cause problems, and
also are a maintenance problem: it is easier to have a single web page
than a web page together with a few hundred images. Also, loading
may be slowed down greatly by all these images.
Of course in general $...$ formulas can be arbitrarily complicated.
But as it happens in the present case, all formulas are of the simple
type $x sub ij$ or $x sup 3$, well rendered by <i>x<sub>ij</sub></i> or so.

So, wish-list item: a grohtml option to tell it that images are
undesirable, and in-line html is preferred.

Andries