Package: bibtex2html
Version: 1.99-2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I maintain several large bibtex files, including one devoted to
numerical analysis papers, with abstracts that use a lot of math
notation. I have collected some of the required translations
into a latex macro file that I can load with the -m switch.
However, it would be more convenient to have those translations
built into bibtex2html tool.
I'm proposing four kinds of additions:
- bibtex2html already had a translation for \log. I've added
translations for all 32 of the math functions on p. 162 of the
TeXbook.
- I added single-character translations for \lbrace, \rbrace,
and \over.
- There were already translations for \sum, \int, and \prod that
used HTML entities. I've added translations using
Unicode. (Note that there were already translations for "--"
and "---" to both HTML entities and Unicode, presumably for
situations where one was acceptable but the other was not, so
I'm following the same convention.)
- I added both Unicode and HTML translations for \ell, \ll,
\gg,\langle, and \rangle.
I'm attaching a patch to make those additions for Debian. It
would be even better to get them accepted upstream.
- Jim Van Zandt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages bibtex2html depends on:
ii ocaml-base-nox [ocaml-base-nox-4.05.0] 4.05.0-11
ii perl 5.28.1-3
ii texlive-base 2018.20190131-1
bibtex2html recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bibtex2html suggests:
pn hlins <none>