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) > > > > The most commonly applicable DOCTYPE from that list is: > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > > 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";>'; > > 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
