On Sunday 31 July 2005 1:57 am, Bernd Warken wrote:
> > > I am having a problem converting a man page containing an equation to
> > > html format.
> >
> > I've tried your example with a recent version of groff (1.19.2) and it
> > appears to work fine.
> >
>
> That is partly true. `grohtml' transforms the equation into an image that
> is stored as a png picture in the current directory. `groff' generates a
> html output containing a reference to this stored image file.
>
> This could be alright, but goes wrong when you are not in a writable
> directory or the html output is stored to some file in another directory.
>
> The non-writable directory problem could be fixed by making `groff' store
> the images in the temporary directory; but then the finding and the
> removement of the suitable image files could be complicated.
Isn't this why grohtml provides the `-D imagedir' option -- to allow the user
to specify *his* preferred location for the image files? So...
groff -Thtml -P-Dimagedir ...
would seem to be what you need.
Regards,
Keith.
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