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Re: [help-texinfo] Wish: --split-level
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Wish: --split-level |
Date: |
Thu, 06 May 2004 16:40:58 +0200 |
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>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:
> The config files just need to be
> enriched with the level of splitting.
> The only information available in the @xref command is the node and
> filename. So if we're looking at @xref{somenode,,,somemanual}, and we
> look up somemanual in the config file, and it says that it's split by
> chapter, what do we do? We need to generate
> href="../somemanual/somechapter.html#somenode", but we don't know what
> "somechapter" is.
I definitely overlooked :(
> I guess we could write all the chapter/section/etc. names into a config
> file too, when somemanual was generated, but this does not appeal.
> Or, we could generate http://somemanual/index.html#somenode, and rely on
> a javascript redirect (also created when somemanual was generated) to
> somechapter.html#somenode, but ... I don't like the idea of correctness
> relying on js.
> Finally, in general, I am pretty doubtful that anyone will ever bother
> to actually create/update those config files ...
> Is there some other way?
Well, you *could* require the destination Texinfo nearby. That would
also help catching incorrect external @ref{}.
Hm...