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Re: Small document and sample HTML and DocBook
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Noah Slater |
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Re: Small document and sample HTML and DocBook |
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Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:25:38 +0000 |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:22:36PM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> >
> > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ (Activating Browser Modes with Doctype)
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> > The most commonly applicable DOCTYPE from that list is:
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> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
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> I found that it was hard to have valid html with the strict dtd, instead
> in texi2html Transitional is used:
> $DOCTYPE = '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd";>';
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> In texi2html had a plan to do an init file for strict xhtml (or maybe
> strict html) but never got around to do it.
I think we should avoid XHTML because it causes more trouble than it's worth. If
this is a controversial opinion on this list I am happy to spend some time
digging out citations for you. (but I'd rather not, obviously)
If it's not too hard, I would aim for full HTML strict output. If this is an
insurmountable task, anyone who wants strict can use HTMLTidy. Whatever the
case, I would choose one and stick with it.
> It would need much more css.
What would need more CSS?
> That being said this would certainly be trivial to do on a coding point of
> view, but a css knowledge is needed.
I have been working on a default stylesheet for my GNU manual that balances
æsthetics with readability and I would love to contribute this to texi2html and
work with you on getting it broadly useful for distribution.
My current draft is available at:
http://periplum.org/dev/gnu/publish/trunk/doc/publish.html
This is currently produced with:
makeinfo --enable-encoding --html --no-split --css-ref=style.css
I am also working on similar CSS for my O'Reilly book:
http://books.couchdb.org/relax/
Is this something that interests you?
> Also I would like to rework the css support in texi2html, to be more
> compatible with what makeinfo currently do, and to enhance (and fix) css, but
> after the merge. Currently info output is way higher on my list (and
> progressing rather neatly).
Not sure what this means. How can I help out?
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
Re: Small document and sample HTML and DocBook, Karl Berry, 2009/01/12