4.2 Unix/Linux

L^ATEX2HTML is normally installed in these operating systems by NRAO systems administration staff.

In some Charlottesville installations, users have needed to specify the path so the ucb library at login time, e.g. for the csh shell:

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/ucblib

The configuration file is latex2html.config, and the system-wide initialization file is .latex2html-init. The settings in the latter can be over-ridden by a local copy in the user's .tex document directory.

The quality of the image-generation for mathematical symbols can be improved by editing .latex2html-init to set

$PK_GENERATION = 1;
$METAFONT_DPI = 180;

This causes custom generation of the PK fonts when making .gif images of math mode expressions. This option significantly increases runing time for the conversion, but it makes much better-formed characters in the in-lined images. To enable the PK font generation, it may also be necessary to edit the MakeTexPK system script to enable font generation at 180 dpi. In Charlottesville a fix that was needed to earlier versions of MakeTeXPK was to add the 180) line as shown below:

   if test -z "$MODE" || test "$MODE" = default; then
     case "$BDPI" in
       85) MODE=sun;;
      180) MODE=toshiba;;
      300) MODE=cx;;
      600) MODE=ljfour;;
     1270) MODE=linolo;;

This could be done only by systems administrators.

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