Apologies for bumping this old discussion. However, I felt it would be informational towards any future authors and coders running into the same issue as I have.
I also had an issue with recursion errors on my compiled HTML document. And I found the reason why, completely simple yet easily overlooked; when you are using a *text_image command, you must include the alignment and caption along with the file name. Leaving out the alignment and caption, such as *text_image sample.png , will cause the recursion to occur, as opposed to *text_image sample.png center Sample Caption .
This was an interesting find, although I’m not sure exactly why the recursion gets triggered due to the improper command. Anyways, that was my discovery, hopefully that saves some headaches for anybody in the future that runs into such an issue.