LaTeX2HTML bugs and peculiarities

  During my work with LaTeX2HTML, I have found some things that causes errors in different ways, and which can be very time consuming to solve. For the interested reader, they are listed here, together with solutions / workarounds:

Tilde in URL:

To make a hyperlink to a URL that has a tilde in it, one should write ``~'' as ``\~{}'', e.g.

	\htmladdnormallinkfoot{my Web page}
	    {http://www.astro.ku.dk/\~{}milvang/}

Tilde in URL for htmladdimg:

The above only works for \htmladdnormallink and
\htmladdnormallinkfoot, not for \htmladdimg. I have not found any way to make
\htmladdimg use a URL with a tilde in it. A workaround is to use the following instead:

	\begin{rawhtml}
	<img src="http://www.astro.ku.dk/~milvang/RelViz/Anim/01/a000.gif">
	\end{rawhtml}

Note, that when using the rawhtml environment, a tilde should (of course) just be written as a tilde.

Underscore in URL:

To make a hyperlink to a URL that has an underscore in it, one should write ``_'' as ``\_'', e.g.

	\htmladdnormallinkfoot{QuickTime}
	    {http://www.astro.ku.dk/\~{}milvang/RelViz/Anim/01/a\_over\_M.qt}

Comments not allowed certain places:

The following will give the error ``Runaway argument?'':

	\begin{rawhtml} % bar
	foo
	\end{rawhtml} % bar

The workaround is not to place comments (i.e. ``% bar'' in the example) right there.

Getting text centered also in the HTML version:

For some reason, LaTeX2HTML seems to ignore the center command when making the HTML version. A workaround is:

	\begin{center}
	\begin{rawhtml}
	<center>
	\end{rawhtml}
	Here goes the text to be centered.
	\begin{rawhtml}
	</center>
	\end{rawhtml}
	\end{center}