Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

[Karl Berry]

    Why does texi2html suddenly begin to lament
    about it when texi2pdf deals with it just fine?

The basic answer to this question is that texi2html and texi2pdf are two
completely different implementations of Texinfo (one in Perl and one in
TeX), and texi2pdf (i.e., texinfo.tex) does not care a whit for node
relationships, while that is fundamental to texi2html (and makeinfo).

    Why should I use @menu here? What is it good for?
    Wouldn't it be kind of redundant if I added all the sections of
    a chapter into a menu again?

You are right that it is "kind of redundant" when all you are generating
is HTML.  But they are still useful because they explicitly show readers
(of the output) the sections under a given chapter.  And menus are
fundamental to Info navigation.

But since it seems you and Patrice can get book.init to work
satisfactorily with enough tweaks, more power to you :).

Hope this helps,
karl

P.S. Regarding texi2html being obsolete ... well, when texinfo 5.0 hits
the streets, sort of.  (No ETA.)  Definitely not obsolete related to
makeinfo 4.13.