Fwd: [gnits] texinfo 4.0a pretest available

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Hi List,

[My] html splitting patches to texinfo are now available in a texinfo
pretest release, see below.  Using this pretest, the LilyPond html
documentation can be split into separate html pages, like you find
them at our personal websites http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond and
http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/links/latest/

Anthony, maybe it would be a good idea to include this html
documentation, maybe even in a separate -doc package like the .rpm?
Would debian unstable want to include texinfo pretest releases?

Greetings,
Jan.


Note: if you want to try this, you'll have to edit the makefile:

--- ./Documentation/user/GNUmakefile.orig       Wed Dec 27 10:25:03 2000
+++ ./Documentation/user/GNUmakefile    Wed Dec 27 10:26:45 2000
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@
 info: $(INFO_FILES)
 
 
-# The next version of makeinfo should split html files into their own
-# directory.  For now available only as patches from
-# http://appel.lilypond.org/software
-SPLITTING_MAKEINFO = $(shell makeinfo --version | grep '4.0.jcn[2,3]')
+# The new pretest version of makeinfo, 4.0a splits html files into their own
+# directory.  Available from
+# ftp://texinfo.org/texinfo/pretests/texinfo-4.0a.tar.gz
+SPLITTING_MAKEINFO = $(shell makeinfo --version | egrep '4.0((.jcn[2,3])|a)')
 
 
 # Generic rule using % twice not possible?




Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:50:24 -0500
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
Subject: [gnits] texinfo 4.0a pretest available

Hi folks,

I've made a very preliminary texinfo pretest available at:
ftp://texinfo.org/texinfo/texinfo-4.0a.tar.gz

(I will update alpha.gnu.org as soon as I again have the permissions to do so.)

I did this mostly to get Jan's work on HTML splitting out there, at his
special request.  It also includes Jan's @verbatim/@verb patch, and
switches to the GNU Free Documentation License.

I have over 200 other messages and many more worthy patches to
integrate, so the next release is not imminent :(.

Please email me or the list (address@hidden) with questions
or problems.  Do not email the regular texinfo lists, they should remain
for official releases.

Thanks,
address@hidden

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org