On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:04 AM Patrice Dumas <pertu...@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!)

>
>
> --
> Pat
>


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Ray

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