Yes, Eric, that's probably the case . . . and I just don't have my latex ducks in a row yet. I've been spoiled on Linux -- things just working. . . 

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
On Friday, 18 Mar 2016 at 11:29, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. Yes, a stripped-down org file did work. Will
> troubleshoot till the culprit sinister is found.

One reason for LaTeX being required for HTML export is that you have
equations or similar and these are being converted to images?  Just
grasping at straws here.

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