Re: [help-texinfo] texi2html trouble

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:29:13AM +0100, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
> 
> Sure, check out the attached mini test texi. The call goes like this:
> $ texi2html -frames -split node test.texi
> 
> test_frame.html will then reference the file test.html but test.html won't
> be created at all.

Indeed, texi2html-1.82 seems to be broken in that respect.

I checked that texinfo/tp works well.

> Testing new versions is not that easy for me because I'm on cygwin and
> I'm not sure if I can simply drop new versions into my cygwin installation.

My experience with cygwin is that packages following
the GNU standards may be installed quite easily.

You should be able to download the source and do

./configure && make && make install

If you want to try the cvs version, you have to have
automake/autoconf/gettext installed, and you could
do something along

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/texinfo co texinfo
cd texinfo
./autogen.sh
./configure && make && make check && make install

> Why is the new version bumped to 5.0 by the way? Is it a complete
> rewrite or something?

No, but the idea was to synchronize version with texinfo before
merging.  In the end texi2html is in texinfo, but the next release
will be based on a new implementation, the Parser.

> Is it possible to get rid of the "Section" links in the Index? In my document,
> index entries and section entries use identical names. Thus, the index looks
> kind of redundant because it goes like this:
> 
> Index Entry              Section
> An index entry          5.7 An index entry
> Another index entry   5.3 Another index entry
> Last index entry        10.9 Last index entry
> 
> It would be totally sufficient for my purposes if there was only the left 
> column
> (Index Entry) in the Index. The section entries could be left out altogether.

That would require that you redefine the function reference that
does the indes entry formatting.  For menu entry there is something
along what you ask for, but not for index entries, since your
case should be pretty rare.

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Pat