Re: Displaying images for html output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 05:20:00PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:11 PM Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
> > I think that if the path does not starts with . or .. or is an absolute
> > path, it would make sense
> > 1) to search in include directories (I think that the current directory
> >   is always in front of of the search path)
> > 2) to check if the directories and image file exist in the destination
> >   directory and if not copy the file
> >
> > For point 2), there could be a customization variable to prevent the
> > copy, that would be off in the default case, but can be turned on for
> > the users who want backward compatibility or do something else by
> > themselves, for instance use links.
> 
> That sounds okay, as searching include directories matches what
> happens with TeX. When you say "current directory" this should mean
> the directory containing the Texinfo file, not the working directory
> from which texi2any is run. (What to do when a file in a subdirectory
> is @include'd and then references an image, I don't know.)

I think that it is the current directory, not the directory containing
the Texinfo file, but I do not think that it matters much.  I think that
the point is to copy the image file from where it is found to the
destination directory.

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Pat