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

[Scott Webster <sewebster@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:12:41 +0100, Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> wrote:
<snip>
> 
> It does work if you define the macros with LaTeX, instead of native TeX:
> 
> % cat macros.tex
> \newcommand{\test}{"Correctly substituted journal name."}
> 
> I didn't check with earlier versions of bibtex2html whether TeX-style
> definitions used to work. However, the documentation only talks about
> LaTeX macros, not about TeX macros. Hence I suppose that this is
> indeed the intended behaviour.
> 
> -Ralf.

Ahh, great, thanks.  I guess I'll just point out that the homepage
(http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/index.en.html) says that you
can "Read simple macros in TeX or LaTeX files;" near the top.  That is
possibly misleading, although not really the reason for my confusion!

Thanks again,

Scott Webster