Re: [Groff] HTML output of a man page containing an equation

[Keith Marshall]

On Sunday 31 July 2005 1:57 am, Bernd Warken wrote:
> > > I am having a problem converting a man page containing an equation to
> > > html format.
> > 
> > I've tried your example with a recent version of groff (1.19.2) and it
> > appears to work fine.
> > 
>
> That is partly true.  `grohtml' transforms the equation into an image that
> is stored as a png picture in the current directory.  `groff' generates a
> html output containing a reference to this stored image file.
>
> This could be alright, but goes wrong when you are not in a writable
> directory or the html output is stored to some file in another directory.
>
> The non-writable directory problem could be fixed by making `groff' store
> the images in the temporary directory; but then the finding and the
> removement of the suitable image files could be complicated.

Isn't this why grohtml provides the `-D imagedir' option -- to allow the user 
to specify *his* preferred location for the image files?  So...

    groff  -Thtml  -P-Dimagedir ...

would seem to be what you need.

Regards,
Keith.