[tex4ht] usage with pdftex

[D. R. Evans]

Radhakrishnan CV said the following at 08/03/2010 05:22 AM :

>> 
>> I started with "ht pdftex bk7.tex":
> 
> Sorry, this won't work since TeX4ht needs a dvi output from which it
> extracts the html while pdfTeX generates a pdf by default. So, tex4ht
> post-processor will weep that there is no \jobname.dvi. However,

That's what I suspected was the problem.

> 
> ht 'pdftex -output-format=dvi' bk7.tex
> 
> will work. But the html file will have only the ASCII characters of your
> document and will not be valid html. To make a valid html from a plain

I think that's probably what I did at one point, and noted exactly that
result :-)

> TeX file, you have to do the following trick.

[stuff elided]

Brilliant! I would never have discovered the solution myself. I am in awe.
Thank you so much.

  Doc

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