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Re: [GSoC] Proposal for JavaScript for info-style navigation.


From: Per Bothner
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Proposal for JavaScript for info-style navigation.
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:19:52 -0700
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On 03/29/2017 01:21 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
As suggested by Per, I have re-read his texinfo roadmap in more details.

While I re-emphasize this is my personal roadmap of how I think texinfo should
evolve (not everyone agrees ...), I think there is general agreement of the
value of a nice JavaScript-based UI for texinfo/html documents.

This reading has been really helpful to understand the various issues
regarding the HTML output and learn about the possible solutions that
will allow a better Web UI.

I have sent a draft of my proposal which can be found here:

  http://mathieu.lirzin.emi.u-bordeaux.fr/gsoc/texinfo.pdf

Any comment or remark that could help improving my proposal before the
due date are welcome.

It seems fine.  The roadmap section is a bit thin.
Some more detail would be nice.  I mean: I know what I would do,
but it would good for you to show (in your own words) what you plan to do.

Do you know Perl?  Are you comfortable making changes to the makeinfo source,
which is mostly Perl?  It not necessary, and it may actually be an unwise
distraction from focusing on the JavaScript, just using the existing kawa.epub.
However, the way kawa.epub is built by first translating to DocBook isn't
really satisfactory, so a some point we want to use makeinfo's html output
directly, which means cleaning up and enhancing the the latter,
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        --Per Bothner
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