many questions

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

texi2html is now mostly compatible with makeinfo, but I still 
have some questions about the desired bahaviour:

* in the doc it is said that when doing html and split and it is not
  possible to do the directory with the out file basename, .html is 
  appended to the directory name. I think this is a very strange and 
  bad behaviour. It certainly allows to avoid appending .??? to the 
  @setfilename argument and still not have conflicts, but I think that
  forcing users to change @setfilename is better.

  Would it be ok to remove this feature?

* for makeinfo, the following are not the same, looks like -I is not taken
  into account with a leading ./:
@include ./d2t_singular/surf_lib_noEx.tex
@include d2t_singular/surf_lib_noEx.tex

Is it on purpose?

* texinfo expands @-commands normally in @documentdescription, but keeps --,
  texi2html uses simple_format which removes most @commands but uses
  entities

Which one is right (I'd say texi2html)?

* makeinfo in title, for @code{something} leads to `something'. In
texi2html all the style commands are removed without extra formatting.

Is it right?

* makeinfo don't warn for empty deffn, but texi2dvi cannot process them

should there be a warning?

* makeinfo doesn't warn for empty sectionning/heading commands, like
** unnumberedsubsec without name (l. 284)

Should there be a warning or not?

* the code of xml.c in makeinfo shows specific treatement of & in
  definition arguments. Could you please explain what it is meant to
  be?

* makeinfo warn when there is no @settitle nor @top. Guess it is for <title>
  texi2html uses @settitle @title @shorttitlepage @titlefont for <title>.

What should be the best?

* does --document-language cmd line apply to first or all files, when there
  are more than one file on command line?

* In info, when there are multiple index entries with the same name, 
  should <1>... be appended? Or only when they are not at the same location?

* only texi2html warns an empty @item in (v|f)table:
** Empty index entry for @vtable (l. 26)
Is it right?

* What are the encodings known by info/makeinfo?
  unrecognized encoding name `ascii'.

* for a construct like

@table @emph
before first table
@item tab
@end table

  leading to something along

    before first table
_tab_

  Should there be an empty line added after the title?

* should @OE{} be associated with '00D8' or '0152'?

* should include files be searched in current directory, input manual
  directory or both?

* When there is a 0x7F as a comment character, should the eol also be 
  removed (I think so)?

* When should the following error message be produced:
@strong{Note...} produces a spurious cross-reference in Info; reword to avoid 
that.

When there is @strong{note or @strong{Note ? In some other cases?

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Pat