Michal: maybe we should open another issue « native MSW support » to discuss this. Actually I had only tested the .4ht file generation from the litterate programming files, and I did not go further in the installation.

FYI, quite some time ago, I had made a trial with Msys which is a native MSWindow bash and it worked more or less.

The only problem was rather with my SVN client that did not keep the smylinks, so I had to create them manually (Modern MSWindow has mklink dos command for that, but creating the symlink programmatically needs more effort, Msys ln command by default makes copies not symlink, you have to configure both MSWindows and Msys for the ln to create symlinks.

Hello Michal,

I had attached a patch. as file #339 readme-patch.diff

I think that the statement about the PATH should also be updated.

Maybe my patch is not OK, and one should say « provided that the scripts or any symlink thereof can be found by the shell through the PATH variable »

Anyway, this also means that these scripts should be in some pdflatex/xelatex configuration file so that they can be accessed is reduced shell escape mode.

You also need in *nix to have the correct chmod, and in mswindow the file extension should be in PATHEXT

Sorry, but I am not an expert in using shell escape, so I cannot really provide good text.

This README file contains this statement

This directory contains do-nothing scripts named xmllint and vcss

However this scripts are indeed not in this directory, but in a extra-bin subdirectory.