Thank you for your kind words, Lorenz.

That's great that you managed to compile the literate sources.
The chapter about development is messy right now, as it contains duplicate information compiled from various places, but it contains some information about literate sources, their syntax and .4ht files: https://www.kodymirus.cz/tex4ht-doc/Fordevelopers.html#x11-9600010.3

Hi Lorenz,

I've just found what was the issue. There was a really old code for footnote-dw in TeX4ht sources. It disabled the footnote support in citations. I don't know what was the reason for it, it seems that it was here since 2008. There could be some issues back then, but everything works OK now, so I removed this code. Footnote citations now work even inthe ODT output.

The documentation is still an incomplete draft, so I don't promote it much. Maybe I should, since I try to put here some common issues first.

Hi Lorenz,

your file seems to be good in HTML, see the attached file. You get your output in Latin 1 encoding because you need to pass additional parameters to htxelatex, like:

mk4ht htxelatex mwe.tex "html,charset=utf-8,fn-in“ " -utf8 -cmozhtf"

Easier way is to use make4ht:

make4ht -l mwe.tex "fn-in"

It produces UTF-8 output by default. The -x option requires LuaLaTeX, which you seem to actually prefer over XeLaTeX in the PDF mode.

It is also easier to produce the ODT file:

make4ht -l -f odt mwe.tex

("fn-in" option doesn't work in the ODT output). In this case, some citations are inserted inline instead of in footnotes, which is a bug that I will try to fix.

Don't worry about the TUG mailing list, it is mailing list for TeX4ht development, so it is OK.

My work-in progress documentation about TeX4ht is here: https://www.kodymirus.cz/tex4ht-doc/tex4ht-doc.html

As I said, it is work in progress, so there is lot of stuff that I put here from other sources, so it is bit chaotic and lot of stuff is missing. Some information is also old and obsolete (especially the tutorial).

See also the make4ht doc: https://www.kodymirus.cz/make4ht/make4ht-doc.html

Best regards,
Michal

Hi, I am trying to convert a simple LaTeX article, using only sections, emphasis, cross-references and BibLaTeX footnote citations to ODT using ooxelatex (because I need UTF-8 characters).

I am running into two issues, and I have also opened an issue at the BibLaTeX issue tracker (concerning the BibLaTeX warning described below) at https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/1078:

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Issue 1: In the ODT, cross-references are not shown and citations are put out in text instead of footnotes.

There is a warning shown that isn’t shown in the LuaLaTeX compile: Package biblatex Warning: Patching footnotes failed. Footnote detection will not work. — Is this something that has to be fixed on the BibLaTeX side?

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I tried HTML output to check where the issue is in the pipeline. In the HTML output, both cross-references show up and citations are put in footnotes as expected. In the HTML output, only another small issue arises:

Issue 2: In HTML, the final full stop in a footnote citation isn’t suppressed in circumstances where it is correctly suppressed in the LuaLaTeX PDF output.

The same warning is shown as mentioned above.

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I am posting this to the mailing list, too (sorry if wrong), and attach below a mwe.tex and, before that, three commands that show my issues. I am using the current version (2020-11-23-10:05), generated from tex4ht-mkht.tex, as currently included in TeX Live, and also the current version of BibLaTeX included in TeX Live, 3.15a (2020-08-23).

Best regards, Lorenz

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The three commands:

latexmk -pdf -pdflatex=lualatex mwe.tex
→ Puts out everything as I expect it: Full sentence quotations with a full stop at the end in the suffix end in .” – other quotations end in ”.

mk4ht ooxelatex mwe.tex
→ Doesn’t put out cites in footnotes, doesn’t put out cross-references.

mk4ht htxelatex mwe.tex "html,charset=utf-8,fn-in“
→ Doesn’t manage the final full stop as I expect it: Full sentence quotations with a full stop at the end in the suffix end in .”. (last full stop should be omitted) – other quotations end (as expected) in ”.

(There is another small issue that I couldn’t figure out so far: I can make it put out a UTF-8 encoding meta tag, but the file is still encoded in some ISO Latin 1 encoding and I have to convert it to display correctly in the browser.)

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The mwe.tex:

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=footnote-dw]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{my_article,
author = {Doe, John},
journal = {The \TeX 4ht Journal},
number = {3},
pages = {393–396},
title = {A Bibliographer’s \TeX nic Inquiry},
volume = {25},
year = {1989}}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}

\section{Cites}

This is where I would like to have the full stop only \emph{inside} the curly quotes.\cite[See][3, consider especially: “It can be difficult to deal with full stops and curly quotes.”]{my_article}

This is where the full stop should go at the very end.\cite[See][4, “different situation”]{my_article}

\section{Footnotes}

Lorem ipsum dolor\label{dolor} sit amet.\footnote{Test with a \label{testnt} label.}

Lorem ipsum dolor (sicut \ref{dolor}) sit amet.\footnote{Exactly like in n.~\ref{testnt}.}

\section{Some UTF-8 characters}

äüöß

\end{document}