Re: Makeinfo --html produces broken external refs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:50:42 +0300
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > If you want a command whose effect is position-dependent, you could
> > already use @value, can't you?
> 
> How could @value have helped in this case?

I meant that you could use @value in the 4th argument to @xref.

> > Sounds like Karl and Patrice have already figured out a way to solve
> > this.  Their solution sounds better than yours, since there will be a
> > single place where such things are defined.
> 
> As I said in my letter to Karl, I seem to have missed something. I don't
> know what solution you are talking about.

This one:

> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:46:25 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> > Such a feature might be useful. Nevertheless, I believe that the
> > documentation system should provide a mechanism for specifying base URLs
> > in the document. For example, if any piece of documentation refers, say,
> > to GNU tar, it is quite natural to point to the tar's documentation on
> > www.gnu.org and not elsewhere. Besides, the same document can refer to
> 
> Something is already planned for that, using a configuration file,
> called 'htmlxref.cnf'. Then in that file you can add entries like
> 
> tar mono www.gnu.org/somewhere/
> tar split www.gnu.org/somewhere/nodes