[tex4ht] How to use \newcommand to pass argument #n to tex4ht via direct HTML environment?

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

Fyi;

Found a workaround.Instead of using

    \ScriptEnv{html}..\begin{html}..\end{html}

to insert raw HTML, I am switched to using \HCode{} and
now it works. \begin{html}..\end{html} is a little more
convenient since one can enter large HTML code at once,
but \HCode{} works as well, might have to use more than one
\HCode{} if needed.

There seems to be an issue with using\begin{html}..\end{html}
inside \newcommand though. It should work. But at least there
is a workaround.

thanks,
--Nasser


On 8/13/2014 2:44 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> I found something about this problem, which is a clue to
> what might be the problem.
>
> First, I had missing \fi in my last post (I seem to have copied
> a copy I was changing at the time). But this has nothing
> to do with why it was not working. Adding the \fi to the last
> example did nothing, same error.
>
> What I found is that the following
>
>      \ScriptEnv{html}..\begin{html}..\end{html}
>
> can't be used at all Inside a \newcommand !
>
> Here is a very simple example, that does not even use #2,
> and it fails, by simply adding raw HTML.
>
> --------------------------------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}%
> \usepackage{hyperref}
>
> \ifdefined\HCode
> \newcommand{\mySection}[1]
> {
> \section{#1}%
>
> \ScriptEnv{html}
>       {\NoFonts\hfill\break}
>       {\EndNoFonts}
>
>      \begin{html}
>         test
>      \end{html}
> }
> \fi
>
> \begin{document}
> \mySection{some text}
> \end{document}
> -------------------------------------
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/tex4ht/html4-math.4ht))
> (./pass_string.aux))
> Runaway argument?
>    test \end {html} ^^M\end{document}^^M
> ! File ended while scanning use of \:temp.
> <inserted text>
>                   \par
> <*> ...tother\HCode .a.b.c.\input  pass_string.tex
>
> If this is the case, any other suggestion how to
> insert raw HTML inside a \newcommand? Is it possible?  Again, I need
> to generate some repetitive raw HTML code that changes by one
> string each time, and the idea is to pass this as parameter
> to \newcommand and make it do all the work.
>
> thanks,
> --Nasser
>
> On 8/13/2014 12:57 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}%
>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>> \newcommand{\mySection}[2]
>> {
>> \section{#1}
>> \ifdefined\HCode
>> \ScriptEnv{html}
>>       {\NoFonts\hfill\break}
>>       {\EndNoFonts}
>>
>>      \begin{html}
>>         <a href="#2/index.htm"> mylink </a>  %-->problem here
>>      \end{html}
>> }
>> \begin{document}
>> \mySection{Wave equation}{folderA}
>> \end{document}
>
>