Created attachment 101550 [details]
make "english" the default lang

Created attachment 101551 [details]
add the patch

Hi Tim, I made a *tiny* change to revert part of one of the japanese
patches ("l2h-2002-2-1+jp2.0.patch") so that english is once again the
default language.  This should hopefully fix the complaints by Neal
Becker and myself.  The results of this tiny change can be seen at:

  before:
http://eddy.csail.mit.edu/eh3/fc2_def_tetex/online_documents/node15.html
  after:
http://eddy.csail.mit.edu/eh3/try_001/online_documents/node15.html

which show that the titles and navigation are markedly improved.  And
essentially all of the japanese changes remain intact per your request.

Now, I just need to figure out why all the PNG images for the
equations have ugly grey (instead of white!) backgrounds.  I'm busy
working on that...

Ed

Great, thanks!  I've built this into 2.0.2-16, which should appear in
rawhide tomorrow.  The spec file is here in the meantime:

ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/tetex/tetex.spec

Some comments (I ran into exactly the same problems).

1. I had a different workaround for the Japanese language problem - I
added the following to a file 'foo':

$default_language = 'english';
$TITLES_LANGUAGE = "english";

and then ran latex2html with the '-init_file foo' command line option.
Unfortunately, this works for everything except the display of the
date - there appears to be no way of changing that, since the date is
set before command line options are read (grep for '# Author address'
in /usr/bin/latex2html). But this appears to be a latex2html bug
rather than a packaging problem specifically. Patching the global
config in /usr/share/latex2html (as is done by Ed's patch) does work
for me though.

2. As regards the grey backgrounds, I saw this for some images (but
not all) under RedHat 9. I worked around it by adding the following to
my configuration:
$TRANSPARENT_FIGURES = 0;
$WHITE_BACKGROUND = 1;

However, under Fedora Core (1 and 2) _every_ image has an ugly grey
background. The only way I found of fixing this was to replace the
dvips binary used by latex2html with that from RedHat 9. There's some
difference in the PS files produced by the two versions of dvips which
confuses latex2html, but I haven't figured out what it is yet...

The following patch to /usr/bin/pstoimg seems to fix the gray 
background problem:

*** pstoimg-FC2-stock   Mon Dec 27 05:21:18 2004
--- pstoimg     Fri Jan  7 11:58:54 2005
***************
*** 1021,1027 ****
        }
      my $had_nonwhite;
      if($opt{white}) {
!       $had_nonwhite = ($ps =~ s/(\n\d+ \d+ bop gsave) \d*\.\d+ 
(TeXcolorgray clippath fill grestore)/$1 1 $2/s);
        }
      $ps_changed = $had_papersize || $had_nonwhite;
      if($ps_changed) {
--- 1021,1028 ----
        }
      my $had_nonwhite;
      if($opt{white}) {
!       $had_nonwhite = ($ps =~ s/(\d+ \d+ bop gsave) \d*\.\d+ 
(TeXcolorgray clippath fill grestore)/$1 1 $2/s);
        }
      $ps_changed = $had_papersize || $had_nonwhite;
      if($ps_changed) {


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All the patch does is remove '\n' from the beginning of the search 
string.  A change is needed because the FC2 version of dvips 
inserts "TeXDict begin" at the beginning of the line, causing the 
search to fail.  (This initial string is not emitted by the version 
of dvips in RH9.)  Note that performance is slightly impacted since 
now the string is sought anywhere in the line; to avoid this, the 
search string could be updated to explicitly include "TeXDict 
begin".  However, as this bug shows, that would be dangerously 
fragile without coordinating with the dvips project.

Julius, I tried to remove the '\n' in the tetex-2.0.2-21 but it didn't
helped me at all since I can still see the gray images in the
latex2html output. Maybe some further modifications need to be made?

I also have this in my ~/.latex2html-init file:

$TRANSPARENT_FIGURES = 0; # default = 1
$WHITE_BACKGROUND = 1; # default = 0

I believe the defaults come from /usr/share/latex2html/l2hconf.pm

*** Bug 145600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.

This isn't a security issue, and Fedora Legacy unfortunately only has the
resources to fix security issues and very critical bugs. It looks to me from
comment #4 that this should be fixed in FC4, so marking closed-currentrelease.
Please reopen and move to the Fedora Core "devel" version if I'm wrong. Thanks.

No; this is not fixed in FC4. The Japanese language issue is fixed (and has been
for some time, AFAIK), but the ugly grey images remain.

The "ugly grey images" remain because the patch in Comment #6 never made it in.
 However, I believe it is now (see Bug 161186).  Note that this patch works in
conjunction with requesting a white image background in latex2html (see Comment
#8 above).

Yes, the patch works just fine for me (as in comment #5, I used white
background) but it's not in FC4 i686 (latex2html-2002.2.1-3)

I don't see the gray images any more with latex2html-2002.2.1-3 on FC4 with
tetex-3.0. Attaching sample tex source I used to translate with latex2html.

Created attachment 117864 [details]
sample file to test the gray images problem