Re: Fwd: [PATCH] different approach to --split html

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> There is no way you can link to both an anchor in a single file
> (ie. to singlefile.html#nodename-anchor) and to an anchor in a split
> file (ie. to nodename.html#anchor) with the same URL (the one
> contained in the external document).

Right.  And that's the crux of the problem (in contrast with Info files, 
where indirect tag tables solve this).

> * for the unsplit html, the file Nodename.html contains the following
> 
>   <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1;
>   URL=index.html#Nodename-anchor">
>   <h1>going to nodename-anchor</h1>
> 
>   such a stub is generated by makeinfo.

Does this automatically cause a Web browser to be forwarded to 
index.html, or does the user need to do something?  If the former, 
perhaps we could use this to emulate the Info tag tables?

We also need to know what version of HTML supports the attributes used 
above, and what browsers support them, to make sure we don't break older 
and/or less popular browsers.

In any case, even if we decide to do the above by default, I still think 
there should be a command-line switch to makeinfo which causes it to 
assume all target files are unsplit, for those users who would not want 
the additional complications of many Nodename.html files and 
subdirectories.  This might be handy, for example, when a CD is burnt 
with lots of HTML documents which reference each other, for use as local 
repository of documentation.