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MiKTeX: "xtpipes failed trying tidy" #53

Closed gl-utah closed 2 years ago

gl-utah commented 2 years ago

I'm running MiKTeX on Windows 8.1. Running make4ht -f odt short1.tex on the following "short1.tex" file

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}ABC\end{document}

does produce a correct ODT file, but throws two warnings:

[STATUS] make4ht: Conversion started
[STATUS] make4ht: Input file: short1.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (MiKTeX 21.10)
entering extended mode
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (MiKTeX 21.10)
entering extended mode
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (MiKTeX 21.10)
entering extended mode
        1 file(s) moved.
[WARNING] xtpipes: xtpipes failed trying tidy
'tidy' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
[WARNING] xtpipes: Tidy failed as well
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) moved.
        1 file(s) copied.
[STATUS] make4ht: Conversion finished

I got several mistakes when converting a larger file, and before trying to troubleshoot them, I wonder if I should or should not ignore these "xtpipes" warnings. On the larger file, I got these "xtpipes" warnings several times.

I could not find much information about these warnings. I understood very little of https://github.com/michal-h21/make4ht/blob/master/make4ht-xtpipes.lua but based on it, perhaps it will help to know that the file tex4ht.jar (dated 4/20/2009) is in [...]AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX 2.9\tex4ht\bin and the file tex4ht.sty (dated 3/6/2021) is in [...]AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\generic\tex4ht.

michal-h21 commented 2 years ago

It seems like the main issue is that xtpipes are not correctly executed. This tool fixes some issues in the XML files and especially handles hyperlinks, so you will most likely get broken ODT file without it.

Could you run make4ht -m draft -f odt -a debug short1.tex and post the terminal output? It should print output from xtpipes.

gl-utah commented 2 years ago

I attach the terminal's output. debugoutput.txt Line 252 says that java is not recognized. After seeing that, I decided to install java, rebooted my computer, and that eliminated the problem! It also eliminated the "xtpipes" problem in the larger file that I'm working on. Many thanks!

michal-h21 commented 2 years ago

Good catch, thanks. make4ht will print the output of the xtpipes command when it fails, in the next version.