Re: Add support for generating HTML docs a` la PDF, etc.

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mon, 2003-02-24 um 23.49 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
> >>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  Richard> Hello.
> 
>  Richard> Below is a patch that adds HTML documentation
>  Richard> generation in a similar way to PDF, PostScript, etc. -
>  Richard> by adding 'html' targets for texinfo sources from
>  Richard> info_TEXINFOS.
> 
> The problem, with html, is that nobody agree about what the
> ouput should be.  I'd say that if we support html, we should
> use the default makeinfo output (which is to split on nodes),
> and let the user say `AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS = --no-split' when wanted.
> This is what we do for info files already.  
> 
> Still some people prefer using texi2dvi, and some also want to
> distribute html files.  It seems hard to satisfy these.
For completeness: There also exists another (ancient) tool called
texi2www which occasionally still is applied by some packages [1] (texi
docu tends not to be updated frequently and therefore, the corresponding
toolchain tends to rot.).

Ralf