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Re: Missing bottom nav bar on some html pages?


From: Raymond Toy
Subject: Re: Missing bottom nav bar on some html pages?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 08:08:30 -0800



On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:04 AM Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 07:48:20AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On most html manuals that I've looked at that have split the manual into
> multiple html pages, I see a navbar  (next/previous/up) at the top of each
> page and also at the bottom.
>
> However, once in a while I see pages where the bottom navbar is missing.  I
> noticed this first at
> https://cmucl.org/docs/cmu-user/html/Without-Object-Sets.html#Without-Object-Sets.
> I thought this was a bug in the texinfo sources, but then I noticed that
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html
> doesn't have a bottom navbar either.
>
> Is this a bug?  An intentional design decision? (If so, I how do I know
> when a bottom navbar is produced or not?)

It is intentional, when there are less than a given number of word,
there is no footer, at least when split at nodes.  See WORDS_IN_PAGE
to customize:

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/HTML-Customization-Variables.html#index-WORDS_005fIN_005fPAGE

Ah, thanks!  I didn't know that.  (There are so many options!)


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Pat


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Ray

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