GDB's texi to html conversion; Was: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

GDB's texi to html conversion; Was: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

[Andrew Cagney]

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>> >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?)

On this, the texi to html converter and web page process does need an 
update ....

The update is needed because I need to get a ``(C) FSF yada yada yada'' 
appended to the bottom of all the generated pages.  This is to bring 
those pages into line with current FSF web page policy.  I also wouldn't 
mind changing how/where the pages get installed but that is a separate 
problem.

I do have reservations over using a non-released version of makeinfo.

enjoy,
Andrew

Re: GDB's texi to html conversion; Was: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:37:55 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
> I do have reservations over using a non-released version of makeinfo.

Obviously, it's your call.  IMHO the generation of HTML is not
terribly important because I expect it to be used almost exclusively
for the GDB Web page.  It's not really a user-level feature, it's a
maintainer's feature.  If that's true, using a non-released version
shouldn't harm anyone but you ;-)

Re: GDB's texi to html conversion; Was: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

[Andrew Cagney]

>> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:37:55 -0400
>> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>> 
>> I do have reservations over using a non-released version of makeinfo.
> 
> 
> Obviously, it's your call.  IMHO the generation of HTML is not
> terribly important because I expect it to be used almost exclusively
> for the GDB Web page.  It's not really a user-level feature, it's a
> maintainer's feature.  If that's true, using a non-released version
> shouldn't harm anyone but you  [;-)] 

When it comes down to it, I probably shouldn't care - the most important 
thing is good web pages.  Where can I get this magic texinfo?

Andrew

Re: GDB's texi to html conversion; Was: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:25:26 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> > 
> > Obviously, it's your call.  IMHO the generation of HTML is not
> > terribly important because I expect it to be used almost exclusively
> > for the GDB Web page.  It's not really a user-level feature, it's a
> > maintainer's feature.  If that's true, using a non-released version
> > shouldn't harm anyone but you  [;-)] 
> 
> When it comes down to it, I probably shouldn't care - the most important 
> thing is good web pages.  Where can I get this magic texinfo?

Here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo-4.0c.tar.gz