Re: allow hyphen etc unescaped in filenames/links

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:25:02PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> The DomTerm/Kawa manuals contain hyphens in node names and anchors.
> The existing (docbook-based) process preserves these hyphens in filenames and 
> links.
> This means that migrating to --html output with texinfo-js will break 
> existing links.
> 
> Breaking existing links is bad enough, but the html link names are really 
> ugly,
> and (compatibility aside) I really don't want such links in my web-site.
> 
> I would like a configuration option to allow at least '-' and '_'
> (hyphen and underscore) to be used without escaping.

You could fix the links by changing the node names.

For example, https://domterm.org/drop-down.html comes from a node called
"drop-down".  texi2any makes this drop_002ddown.html.  If you change the 
node name to "drop down" instead, then the file name will be 
drop-down.html instead.

If you wanted to preserve node names in Info, you could add an anchor at 
the start of the node with the old node name.