[tex4ht] macro containing a Unicode character

[Alexandre Roberts]

Oops, sorry, never mind; I got it to work using: `git clone
https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht.git`.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Alexandre Roberts <
alexandre.roberts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Michal,
>
> Thank you very much for this solution! It sounds like exactly what I need.
>
> I am eager to try it, but unfortunately when I tried to install helpers4ht
> (on Mac OS 10.11.5) by following your instructions (
> https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht), the command `git clone
> git at github.com:michal-h21/helpers4ht.git` returned an error (without
> asking me for a password):
>
>      Cloning into 'helpers4ht'...
>
>      Permission denied (publickey).
>
>      fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> Do you happen to know what I'm doing wrong? (Sorry for such a basic
> question.)
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Michal Hoftich <michal.h21 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> >
>> > I would like to produce an ODT document from my XeLaTeX document (using
>> MacTeX
>> > 2016).
>> >
>> > The necessary code to include Unicode characters (including in Greek
>> and Arabic
>> > script) was kindly provided by CV Radhakrishnan and Michal Hoftich back
>> in
>> > February 2013. But I am running into a new difficulty: converting a
>> document
>> > that defines LaTeX macros that have Unicode characters in them. (The
>> reason I
>> > want this is to enable me to use macros within a Right-to-Left script,
>> Arabic.
>> > Mixing up RTL and LTR scripts in a text editor, especially when
>> punctuation --
>> > or braces {} -- is involved, tends to make the source file unreadable.)
>> >
>> > I am attaching a MWE in two files:
>> >
>> > 1. `main.tex`: standalone file that includes macro definition
>> > 2. `utf2ent.pl`: the Perl script devised by CVR to keep Unicode in the
>> new
>> > document
>> >
>> > The script I run to compile this is:
>> >
>> >      # CVR's script to preserve Unicode characters
>> >      perl utf2ent.pl main.tex > main-ent.tex
>> >
>> >      # tex4ht
>> >      mk4ht oolatex main-ent "xhtml, charset=utf-8"  -utf8
>> >
>>
>> There are two problems:
>>
>> 1. Macros with Unicode names are supported only by Unicode engines, ie.
>> XeTeX and LuaTeX. mk4ht oolatex is 8-bit pdflatex, so it can't really
>> support it.
>>
>> 2. utf2ent converts all Unicode characters to entities, including your
>> command, so you end with something like '\\entity{1589}' in your code.
>>
>> 3. $\langle$ and $\rangle$ produces wrong mathml code, see
>>
>> https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?278
>>
>> ODT format uses mathml, so it may produce invalid file.
>>
>> Now what can be done:
>>
>> You need to use Unicode engine. That means LuaTeX at the moment, as
>> XeTeX support is broken in tex4ht at the moment. Fortunately, you can
>> use XeTeX to produce the PDF and only modify some macros for tex4ht.
>>
>> With LuaTeX, it is possible to keep Unicode characters without need to
>> call external scripts to convert them to Unicode entities. See
>>
>> http://michal-h21.github.io/samples/helpers4ht/fontspec.html
>>
>> for more details. I've modified your file to use alternative4ht and to
>> fix the problem with angles. Two new macros are introduced:     extlangle
>> and     extrangle, which are redefined in the config file to use XML
>> entities directly, instead of math mode.
>>
>> I've also found a problem that the angles are wrongly swapped in the ODT
>> and HTML, probably it is because they use the BIDI algorithm, so they
>> don't expect that they are swapped by the user already (you use
>> \rangle#1\langle). I've redefined the commands for angles in the config
>> file to use the opposite side than should be used according to the name,
>> so they are rendered correctly.
>>
>> The last problem is that mk4ht doesn't support LuaTeX, so you need to
>> use different way to compile the document. You can use:
>>
>> make4ht -ulm draft -c hello.cfg main.tex "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/!
>> -cmozhtf -utf8" " -cooxtpipes -coo"
>>
>> (it might be best to save it as a script, as it is not really human
>> friendly command call :)
>>
>> Modified main.tex and hello.cfg are attached. main.tex can be compiled
>> with xelatex to PDF, all needed changes for tex4ht are in the hello.cfg
>> file.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michal
>>
>
>
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