Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Cross-manual HTML hyperlinks...

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2006-11-13) writes:
>
>> if one takes a look at
>> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-manual/html_node/Installation.html#Installation>
>> and tries following the link in this page, one gets a HTML 404 on
>> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-manual/auctex/Installation.html#Installation>
>>
>> Is this somethink we could fix with a symbolic link, or maybe an HTML
>> redirection (would this obey the #Installation label?)?
>>
>> If there is a solution for this problem, it might be worth checking
>> for other cross-document hyperlinks in the HTML pages in need of
>> fixing.
>
> It seems this is a clash of the assumptions Texinfo is making when
> HTML is generated and the way HTML manuals should be generated
> according to the GNU software maintainer guidelines (namely with
> gendocs.sh).

[...]

> But the gendocs.sh script generates a directory containing an
> index.html file and html_node directory which is not unique across
> multiple manuals.  I haven't seen an option for letting it generate
> output for multiple manuals at once.
>
> We could try to mesh the index.html files and make the html_node
> directories as well as links to them unique, but that would be a
> major PITA.

It sounds like this is something we probably should not try to work
around on our own, but rather report it "upstream", wherever that may
be for gendocs.sh.

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