Re: Generate NEWS.XX.Y.html file for Emacs website

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> I've now fixed any errors I could find in the HTML export, and added
> this new file:
>
>     https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.28.html
>
> I'd suggest updating the link on
>
>     https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Releases
>
> to point to this new HTML file instead of the plain-text.

I've updated NEWS.28.html again, and IMHO it looks even better now.

I also discovered that the HTML files are readable on mobile whereas the
text files aren't.  The file was downloaded instead of viewed in-browser
on the phones I tried.  So that's nice.

If there are no objections, I will go ahead and update the link as
suggested above.  Feedback is still welcome of course, and I will do my
best to fix any issues that crop up.

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Note that we currently have some issues with adding <code> markers
around single quoted strings.  I think it's hard to make the export
perfect given our current NEWS file format, where the markup is not
unambiguous.

Take this example from etc/NEWS.28:

> 'xref-find-definitions-other-window': if it's t or 'show', the first

Or these examples from etc/NEWS (found by Mattias Engdegård):

> across all predicates/modifiers, the list of allowed delimiters has
> been restricted to "...", '...', /.../, |...|, (...), [...], <...>,
> and {...}.  See the "(eshell) Argument Predication and Modification"