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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: The tex4ht changes: please test!
From:       Abdelrazak Younes <younes () lyx ! org>
Date:       2008-10-20 17:33:27
Message-ID: 48FCC0E7.8090100 () lyx ! org
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On 20/10/2008 19:15, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> On 19/10/2008 16:24, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> It turned out that finding a one-for-all command that fits all OSes 
>> and LaTeX
>> distributions is not so easy:
>>
>> * the oolatex helper script is not included in the stock tex4ht 
>> distribution
>> (it has to be generated by the user), and it is not included in some 
>> major
>> LaTeX distributions (such as TeXLive and at least some older versions of
>> MacOSX-TeX). Also, the tex4ht documentation indicates that calling 
>> mk4ht is
>> the default, recommended way.
>>
>> * OTOH, MikTeX seems to rely on oolatex, at least unless Pearl is 
>> installed
>>
>> * Furthermore, some older distributions had problems with the oolatex 
>> script,
>> even if it was available.
>>
>> I think what we have in trunk now is the best compromise. However, 
>> before
>> using that in branch, I'd like to get some testing on as many 
>> different OSes
>> and LaTeX distributions as possible.
>>
>> So please Edit->Reconfigure and report back.
>
> On MS Vista, Mikte2.7 and OO 3.0, the export takes a few minutes and 
> is almost successful. I get tons of
> ...
> Unfortunately, the export fails at the end because zip is not in my path:
>
> System call: cd    sxw-UserGuide.dir\
> System return: 0
> System call: cd    sxw-UserGuide.dir\META-INF
> System return: 0
> System call: zip   sxw-UserGuide.dir\UserGuide.odt        
> sxw-UserGuide.dir\META-INF\*.*
> 'zip' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne

Adding zip.exe to the Miktex bin directory solved the problem. 
Unfortunately, OO3.0 is unable to open the generated .odt file.

Abdel.

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