Re: HTML info

[Yuan Fu]

> On Dec 25, 2021, at 10:01 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> I think a new package would be cleaner.  It can always borrow ideas
>> and even code from info*.el, as appropriate.
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>>> 3. Completely duplicate all top Info commands in a new package
>>>   info-html.el.
>> 
>> I think that's best.
> 
> Fine.  Anyone wants to write such a package?  It would be nice to
> include it in the core to be able to display Emacs manuals with
> variable pitch fonts.

I don’t claim to be seriously working on it, but here is a POC, I didn’t try to 
plug it into (dir), the only entry point right now is html-info-lispref which 
will open the lisp reference at /doc/lispref/elisp.html. You can click around 
and go next/prev/up but there is no i/[/]/r/l/etc.

One thing I noticed is that the HTML Info files lack a nice top level menu. The 
HTML Top only has a (very) long TOC and a short TOC. The TOC's only include the 
node name and leave out the short description.

I’m on a Mac which is case-insensitive, and my texinfo still have the bug where 
it drops index.html when merging Index.html and index.html. So I can’t test 
multi-file manual’s Top node (it’s in index.html). Besides that, single-file 
and multi-file seem to both work fine.

Yuan

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