5.14 my setup for using htlatex on linux, installing make4ht

1. typed kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME

   to find where TeX will look for files.

2. edits my .basrc and added this

      export TEXMFHOME=$HOME/texmf 
      export PATH=$HOME/texmf/scripts/lu/make4ht-master:$PATH
    
   

3. I use now make4ht to build latex to html (new builder in place of htlatex). Downloaded it from

   https://github.com/michal-h21/make4ht

   and extracted the zip file below $TEXHMF/scripts/lua folder.

   >unzip make4ht-master.zip 
   Archive:  make4ht-master.zip 
   5417507d156b01aded3371efc2d5b71074bb0afe 
      creating: make4ht-master/ 
     inflating: make4ht-master/README.md 
     inflating: make4ht-master/lapp-mk4.lua 
     inflating: make4ht-master/make4ht 
     inflating: make4ht-master/make4ht-lib.lua 
     inflating: make4ht-master/mkparams.lua 
     inflating: make4ht-master/mkutils.lua 
   >cd make4ht-master/
    
   

   So the tree looks like this

    
   cd $HOME 
   tree texmf 
    
   texmf 
   |___+ scripts 
       |___lua 
           |___make4ht-master 
               |-- lapp-mk4.lua 
               |-- make4ht 
               |-- make4ht-lib.lua 
               |-- mkparams.lua 
               |-- mkutils.lua 
               |-- README.md
    
   

4. make sure you have convert, if not do sudo apt-get install imagemagick
5. make sure you have lua, if not do sudo apt-get install lua5.2 (may be not needed)

6. the command to build latex to html is

            make4ht foo.tex "nma.cfg,htm,charset=utf-8" " -cunihtf -utf8"  "-dfoo"
    
   

   where nma.cfg is currently here nma.cfg

7. in the latex files, I include one file in the preamble which has all the packages to use. Here it is commonlatex.tex

8. example latex file will then be as this

            \documentclass[]{article} 
            \input{commonlatex} 
            \begin{document} 
    
            \end{document}
    
   

9. when first installing, need to fix tex4ht.env so that .png images are better quality. See http: //tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43772/latex-xhtml-with-tex4ht-bad-quality-images-of-equations Use the <dvipng> by erasing the space before it and add space before the <convert> section.

   >locate tex4ht.env 
   /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/latex-web-companion/ch4/tex4ht.env 
   /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env 
   /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex4ht/base/win32/tex4ht.env 
    
   >cd /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex4ht/base/unix 
   >sudo cp tex4ht.env tex4ht.env.SAVED 
   >sudo vi tex4ht.env 
   > 
    
   >diff tex4ht.env tex4ht.env.SAVED 
   153c153 
   < <convert> 
   --- 
   >  <convert> 
   170c170 
   < </convert> 
   --- 
   >  </convert> 
   183c183 
   <  <dvipng> 
   --- 
   > <dvipng> 
   185c185 
   < Gdvipng -T tight -x 1400 -D 96 -bg Transparent -pp %%2:%%2 %%1 -o %%3 
   --- 
   > Gdvipng -T tight -x 1400 -D 72 -bg Transparent -pp %%2:%%2 %%1 -o %%3 
   187c187 
   < Gdvipng -T tight -x 1400 -D 96 -bg Transparent -gif -pp %%2:%%2 %%1 -o %%3 
   --- 
   > Gdvipng -T tight -x 1400 -D 72 -bg Transparent -gif -pp %%2:%%2 %%1 -o %%3 
   192c192 
   <  </dvipng> 
   --- 
   > </dvipng> 
   >