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Re: Missing bottom nav bar on some html pages?
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Patrice Dumas |
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Re: Missing bottom nav bar on some html pages? |
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Tue, 8 Nov 2022 17:04:15 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 07:48:20AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On most html manuals that I've looked at that have split the manual into
> multiple html pages, I see a navbar (next/previous/up) at the top of each
> page and also at the bottom.
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> However, once in a while I see pages where the bottom navbar is missing. I
> noticed this first at
> https://cmucl.org/docs/cmu-user/html/Without-Object-Sets.html#Without-Object-Sets.
> I thought this was a bug in the texinfo sources, but then I noticed that
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html
> doesn't have a bottom navbar either.
>
> Is this a bug? An intentional design decision? (If so, I how do I know
> when a bottom navbar is produced or not?)
It is intentional, when there are less than a given number of word,
there is no footer, at least when split at nodes. See WORDS_IN_PAGE
to customize:
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Customization-Variables.html#index-WORDS_005fIN_005fPAGE
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Pat