The HTML converter necessarily uses a post-processor, which re-parses the output of the yodl program. The post-processor is necessary for a variety of reasons: the HTML output is split into several files, a table of contents is created, labels and references to labels are resolved. The post-processor is a program yodl2html-post and is automatically activated when the shellscript yodl2html is used. I therefore strongly urge you to convert Yodl documents to HTML using this script. The usage of the post-processor has one important drawback. The yodl program sec places tags for the post-processor in its output. The post-processor takes actions according to the tags. The tags start with .yodltagstart. and end with .yodltagend. (though in upper case, guess why I typed them here in lowercase?). Therefore, you cannot put these strings in a Yodl document that should be converted to HTML. The tags would however be harmless in other output formats. (If this setup that uses tags proves to be a problem, I'll implement a way around it. Besides, the tags can be configured in the top-level Makefile when installiong the Yodl package.)
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