Re: Texinfo -> HTML issues

[Aubrey Jaffer]

 | Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:41:13 +0200
 | From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
 | 
 | > From: Aubrey Jaffer <address@hidden>
 | > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
 | > 
 | > My ambition is to simplify that process so that people can figure it
 | > in their heads.  Something like:
 | > 
 | >  The filename is the same as the nodename except for these
 | >  substitutions:
 | > 
 | >  "/" ==> ".slash."
 | >  ":" ==> ".colon."
 | 
 | There are more than these characters, unfortunately.
 | 
 | >  "@" ==> ""
 | 
 | You mean, just delete @ as if it were not there?

A rule for "@" in node-names is not necessary; it seems to be an
illegal character in a node-name.  texinfo.txi does not have "@" in
any node names.  Comma is another character not needing translation
because it is illegal in node names.

 | Look, we can argue like that till Kingdom Come, especially since I
 | sometimes don't read my mail for days and forget the issues.  The
 | important point is that the current code was not some random hack,
 | it came into existence after a lot of discussions and it tries to
 | solve some very real problems.  If you are going to keep the
 | attitude that the current solutions are plain stupid and that by
 | just attacking the stupidity, better solutions will magically
 | materialize themselves, then we will never come to anything
 | constructive.

You are putting words in my mouth.  I don't think the current
arrangements are "stupid" -- I just think we can do better.

 | If you want to help us find better solutions, please make a point of
 | learning the problems and the code, and suggesting specific solutions.

I have suggested very specific solutions.  And you have argued against
them using imagined properties of the code base -- I have read through
much of the code and apparently know it better than you do.