LaTeX2HTML navigational icons placement

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	I have a problem with deciding about the location of icon
 files for LaTeX2HTML, and could not find anything under any policy
 document. 

	The problem is this: LaTeX2HTML optionally creates
 navigation bars at the top and bottom of converted pages; these
 navigation links use graphical icon files that are installed on the
 system when one installs LaTeX2HTML (Current location:
 /usr/lib/latex2html/icons).

	There is problem with specifying the relative URL used to
 refer to these icons:

 case 1) The user looks at the converted file with a browser directly:
         % lynx /tmp/converted.html (or netscape /tmp/converted.html)
         The base URL is file://tmp/converted.html, so the relative url
         /usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif is interpreted correctly as
         file://usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif
 This, however, fails when we use a HTTP server (either locally or
 remotely) 
 case 2) A http server is used to look at, say, 
        http://my.fqdn/converted.html, so the base URL is:
        http://my.fqdn/. The relative url
        /usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif is interpreted  as
        http://my.fqdn/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif, which does not
        exist (since that would map to the file
        <Document Root>/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif

 The only solution I have been able to come up with is to create a
 directory hierarchy under the Document root directory such that the
 url http://my.fqdn/usr/lib/latex2html/icons/up.gif is also valid.

	This is ugly, but it would work transparently.

	My question is, can I depend on /var/www to be the Web
 Document Root? Is it OK to install such a directory (the webstandard
 seems to frown upon any package putting anything under the Document
 Root)? Can anyone suggest a better solution?

	I may also consider putting together a cgi-bin service package
 that would be invoked from a html file under the Document Root; and
 the same questions will arise for that as well.

	comments?

	manoj
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