ideas on printing spec. chars. from HTML file to Samsung ML-1210 printer?

[lan4pal at newcomb.mv.com]

Hmmm...Haven't looked at LaTex/LyX/... in a long time. A quick
try of just putting in ∠ and exporting to .html failed:
*** Fatal Error --- but easy to fix ***
Cannot have '.' in file-name prefix, else dvips fails on images
Change the name from 
/tmp/lyx_tmpdir5559oUP1ig/lyx_tmpbuf0/Ch2.Ch3.test.tex and try again.

This could be some more FC4 extras missing from my system.
However, it prints out (and exports to .ps) just fine! This is
getting me through immediate need of printing out the test for
tomorrow. I'll look at getting the work to HTML at the end of
the semester.

I'll also try html2ps when I get a chance to get it and the
various other necessary packages installed.

Some teachers I've talked to have asked why I'm interested any
other "word processors" when MSWord (for Mac's and MSWindows) is
available. Unfortunately, most seem ready to switch from Apple
Mac's to MSWindows and are seem uninterested in checking out any
version of Linux ("It will take too long to learn the interface"
was mentioned, even if they haven't seen it at all). If only I
could do marketing on the side...

Thank you for mentioning LyX,
Lee A. N.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: ideas on printing spec. chars. from HTML file to Samsung 
ML-1210 printer?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:19:44 -0400
From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
To: lan4pal at newcomb.mv.com
CC: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org


lan4pal at newcomb.mv.com writes:

 > I am working on mathematics lesson plans in HTML, with many
 > non-Latin characters such as Greek (e.g., &pi;) and math
 > specifics (e.g., &forall;, &ang;). Only "mu" would come out.
 > Only about a dozen of the math operators print out. In a quick
 > test, I put my Greek char. file into an OOo 1.9.125 .odt file;
 > the printout gave me all but 9 of the characters (thought
 > lower-case alpha would came, but an assumption...).

Have you tried installing LyX ? This would pull in all the LaTeX
requiered fonts, etc. You could then use LyX to actually write your
docs, and then just export to html, ps, or pdf. I believe LaTeX still
to this day has better support for math than just about anything else.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul