Bug#298767: bibtex2html: fails to use macros with -m option

[Scott Webster <swebster@physics.ubc.ca>]

Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.75-1
Severity: normal


Version 1.75-1 of bibtex2html doesn't seem to properly read LaTeX
macros from a file anymore.   Here is an example of trying to use a
macro to substitute in a journal name:

---

$ cat test.bib
@Article{Test2004,
  Author         = {Webster},
  Title          = {Test title},
  Journal        = {\test},
  Volume         = {100},
  Pages          = {1000},
  Year           = {2004},
  Abstract       = {Test abstract.},
}
$ cat macros.tex
\def \test {"Correctly substituted journal name."}
$ bibtex2html -m macros.tex test.bib
macro: test = "Correctly substituted journal name."
This is bibtex2html version 1.75, compiled on Sun Feb 6 16:17:24 CET
2005
Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Jean-Christophe tre and Claude March	
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY (use option
--warranty)

Reading test.bib...ok (1 entries).
calling BibTeX...This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.4.5)
The top-level auxiliary file: /tmp/bib2htmle3c704.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: test.bib

Reading /tmp/bib2htmle3c704.bbl...ok (1 entries)
Sorting...ok.
Making HTML document (test.html)...Unknown macro: \test
ok
Making HTML list of BibTeX entries (test_bib.html)...ok
$ 

---

So it does seem to read the macro, but then later complains with
"Unknown macro: \test".  The generated .html files don't contain
anything where the substituted text should be.

I could be doing something wrong here, but this same setup worked with
a previous version of bibtex2html.

Scott Webster

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bibtex2html depends on:
ii  ocaml-base-nox [ocaml-base-no 3.08.2-1   Runtime system for ocaml bytecode 
ii  perl                          5.8.4-6    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  tetex-base                    2.0.2c-6   Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin                     2.0.2-26   The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra                   2.0.2c-6   Additional library files of teTeX

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