Re: Broken link at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008 schrieb Karl Berry:
>     we are in the process of migrating the huge LilyPond manual
>     to texi2html
>
> How depressing.

Actually, we are only migrating the HTML generation, but of course not the PDF 
generation (which looks gorgeous with texi2dvi!). There were several reasons, 
among them that we can now easily generate a page layout like:

http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/texi2html-out/Documentation/user/lilypond/

I'm still fighting with CSS issues in IE, so please don't use that browser yet 
with the that page; Also, the graphical design is not yet finished, so please 
don't complain about the colors.
That page does not use frames, and additionally, we can expand the current 
section and highlight the current page in the TOC...

Notice also that with texi2html, we have full control over which sections go 
into which file (e.g. all the unnumbered nodes in section 1.1.1 are now in 
the same file...). 

We can also implement a macro @translationof:
   @node translated section name
   @section Translated section title
   @translationof original title used for the file name
so that all translations use the same file names (based on the original 
english names), but translated section titles

Okay, these are some of the reasons, why makeinfo --html was too limited for 
our visions of the documentation... I'm sure, Graham or John can give you 
more detailled arguments.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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