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Stand-alone release of Texinfo JS Interface?


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Stand-alone release of Texinfo JS Interface?
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:13:09 +0100

I think we should make a release of the work done to create an
info-style browsing experience in HTML, by Mathieu Lirzin in 2017 as
part of "Google Summer of Code". This would be separate to the main
Texinfo releases.

"Texinfo JS Interface" seems like a good name. Any other suggestions?

I've added a script ("texinfo-js") to add the interface for any
Texinfo manual, and uploaded the results for Texinfo's own manual to

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo-html/Overview.html

as an example.

As accessing this manual didn't work perfectly in all the web browsers
I tried, any use of this interface should be marked as experimental.

What I plan to do is to make a distribution file from the "js"
subdirectory of the SVN repository in a day or two, and make an
official "pre-release" - hopefully, to get more exposure and testing.
If anybody wants to take a look at it before then, please do so. Some
questions:

* Is everything included in the distribution that should be? (E.g.
source files from all the npm modules.)
* Does the package follow all the aspects of the GNU Coding Standards
(e.g. format of help messages)?
* Can the interface be made to work with more Texinfo manuals? I found
that it wouldn't find index entries in a node simply named "Index".



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