On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 12:22:27PM +0200, Dave Plater wrote: > On 7/7/15, Dave Plater <dplater.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, there's a pretty big chunk of custom stuff in lilypond > >> texi2html. See past discussion here: > >> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000 > > > is this issue likely to be resolved soon or is it as complex as the > > guile 2.x issue and I'm going to have to create texi packages to build > > the documentation? > > See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=936870
It's not as complex as guile 2.x. If somebody has basic knowledge of perl (which isn't hard to acquire) and texinfo (essentially just knowing it's a doc format with @commands), and is good at diagnosing and communicating problems, then I would cautiously estimate 20 hours for this task. 10 hours of investigation and rewriting by oneself, plus another 10 hours of creating minimal examples, sending them to the texinfo list to ask for help, then integrating the solutions into the updated thing. This could very feasibly be done by somebody new to lilypond development. oh, two slight snags: 1) once it was updated to the new texinfo, our build scripts will probably need some slight adjustment. That is not do-able by somebody new to lilypond, but I'd estimate 1 hour from a current lilypond developer to get that done. 2) it is possible (or even likely) that texinfo will need to be changed in order for us to do what we want. I'm certain that if somebody has a minimal example of the problem, and a compelling justification for why we want to achieve the desired output, the texinfo people will be happy to add whatever features or bugfixes are required in texinfo. But this *would* add another delay for being able to build lilypond on a stock distribution with texinfo 5.x. (that said, if I'm correct about requiring texinfo changes, this will need to happen at some point so all the more reason to jump on this now) - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel