Re: texi2any.pl -c HTML_MATH=l2h uses installed files

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:49:35PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 08:51:02PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > When testing the support for latex2html for @displaymath, I found
> > I had to run "make install" so that texi2any.pl would work properly.
> > I expect that texi2any.pl is using the installed init file for
> > latex2html, whereas running this file is supposed only to use uninstalled
> > files.
> 
> Is the second texi2any.pl supposed to be texi2any?

No, it was texi2any.pl I was running.

> In any case, texi2any.pl tries to find the init files as usual using 
> --conf-dir, nothing special is done.  That's why in run_parser_all.sh
> there is --conf-dir $srcdir/../t/init/ --conf-dir $srcdir/../init.

That's odd, it should have worked then.  I will have to try it again
and check which init file is being read.

> I would say that it is a feature, if we want latex2html support to be
> "inside" of texi2any, it should be in a module, for example in
> Convert::HTML and instead of redefining the functions, the function 
> called may do something different based on the HTML_MATH value.  
> For now it is an init file, so it is found like an init file.

Yes, but it should be able to read the init files from an uninstalled
location.