RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Another question

[Eitan Gurari]

Page, Bill writes:

 > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/images/book--main--1/bookvol1.tex
 > 
 > As a pdf file this is about 800 pages.  As html it generates nearly
 > 600 png files and my browsers (both FireFox and Explorer) die while
 > trying to render it. And the download is pretty horrendous anyway
 > :( htlatex indicates a large number of errors which I simply skipped
 > for this test.

Gurari, Eitan writes:

 > A compilation under htlatex shows a support problem for 
 > \begin{list}...\end{list}. I'll need to look into this case.

The problem seems to be in the source bookvol1.tex file.  There are
quite a few usages of a list environment file of the form

   \begin{list}{} 
   \item ...
   \end{list} 

instead of the following form.

   \begin{list}{}{}
   \item ...
   \end{list} 

The correct syntax is:

 \begin{list}{label}{spacing}
 \item First item
 \item Second item
 ....
 \end{list}

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-260.html

-eitan