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diff --git a/support/TeX4ht/doc/mn35.html b/support/TeX4ht/doc/mn35.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..002cf444c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/TeX4ht/doc/mn35.html @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<!--http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd--> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" +> +<head><title>bookkeeping file</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +<meta name="generator" content="TeX4ht (https://tug.org/tex4ht/)" /> +<meta name="originator" content="TeX4ht (https://tug.org/tex4ht/)" /> +<!-- xhtml,th4,index --> +<meta name="src" content="mn.tex" /> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mn.css" /> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> +</head><body +> + <a + href="mn34.html#mn35.html" >exit</a> <h3 class="SubSectionHead"><a + name="QQ1-35-74"></a>Placement of the Bookkeeping File</h3> + <a + name="index35-74001"></a> <a + name="index35-74002"></a> <a + name="index35-74003"></a> <a + name="index35-74004"></a><a + name="TEX4HTWR"></a>To cut down on the time invested to locate files, the <span class="cmtt-10">tex4ht.c </span>program maintains a bookkeeping file where it +records the addresses of the files it finds. Whenever the program needs to locate a file, it first searches the address in +the bookkeeping file. If it doesn’t find the address there, the program embarks on a search throughout the physical +directories of its platform. +<!--l. 8190--><p class="indent" > The program places the bookkeeping file at the first applicable location of the following list. +</p><!--l. 8193--><p class="indent" > +</p><ol type="1" > +<li>The pointer specified by an optional ‘<span class="cmtt-10">-l</span>’ switch provided to the invocation of the <span class="cmtt-10">tex4ht </span>program. +</li> +<li>A file named <span class="cmtt-10">tex4ht.fls </span>in the directory specified by an optional environment variable named <span class="cmtt-10">TEX4HTWR</span>. +</li> +<li>The location specified by an optional ‘<span class="cmtt-10">l</span>’ record provided in the environment file. </li> +<li>A file named <span class="cmtt-10">tex4ht.fls </span>in the work directory. </li></ol> +<!--l. 8209--><p class="indent" > A given address may start with the character ‘<span class="cmtt-10">~</span>’ or the character pair ‘<span class="cmtt-10">~~</span>’. The single character ‘<span class="cmtt-10">~</span>’ is +interpreted to be the directory address of the root, provided in an environment variable named <span class="cmtt-10">HOME</span>. The +character pair ‘<span class="cmtt-10">~~</span>’ is interpreted to be a directory address provided in an environment variable named +<span class="cmtt-10">TEX4HTWR</span>. The address stored in the latter environment variable may also start with a single character +‘<span class="cmtt-10">~</span>’. +</p><!--l. 8220--><p class="indent" > The bookkeeping file must have writable access mode, and the directory which contains the file should have a +compatible access mode. On multi-user platforms, it is recommended not to share the bookkeeping file, but to ask +for such files in the users’ directories. +</p><!--l. 8226--><p class="indent" > The bookkeeping file is a dynamically constructed variant of the ls-R file of kpathsea. TeX4ht +ignores its own bookkeeping mechanism, if the program <span class="cmtt-10">tex4ht.c </span>is compiled with a raised <span class="cmtt-10">-DKPATHSEA</span> +switch. + +</p> + <hr /> +<!--l. 8230--><p class="indent" > <small>Generated August 24, 2020 - <a href="/tex4ht/">tex4ht home page</a></small></p> +</body></html> |