Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> Date: 11 Oct 2001 19:18:05 -0500
> 
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > >> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> > >> Date: 11 Oct 2001 14:46:09 -0500
> > >> 
> > >> You have have missed it, but this is a patch to gdb/doc/Makefile.in.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I didn't miss it, it's just that I never use texi2html (and frankly
> > > don't understand why won't we use "makeinfo --html"), and Andrew
> > > already gave his blessing.
> > 
> >  From memory, at the time texi2html gave better output than `makeinfo 
> > --html` (why it was better I don't remember).  It is probably getting 
> > near high time to re-consider the decision.
> 
> >From gdb/doc/Makefile.in:
> 
> # Note that texinfo 4.0's makeinfo --html can only generate a
> # single file, which would be too large, so continue to use
> # texi2html. -sts 2000-03-28

March 2000?  That's ages ago ;-)

Anyway, there are versions of Texinfo on alpha.gnu.org which support
split by node.  Also, I have a small program I wrote years ago which
can split an HTML file produced by makeinfo by nodes (and rewrite all
the xrefs, so they stay valid).

texi2html has a problem that it doesn't support all the latest
additions to Texinfo, so using it will put a drag on us when we will
want to use those new features.  (Did someone see what do @ifnothtml
and @ifnottex do in texi2html?)