>>>>> "Ardo" == Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ardo> I prefer to make this more general, i.e. usable for other Ardo> formats as well, and propose:
Ardo> basename -- base filename without extension; for HTML this Ardo> would be the basename of the directory to put the file in and Ardo> for the other formats the basename of the target file Ardo> topname -- name for the top-level file without extension and Ardo> only used for HTML (for now at least) Hurm. I think this scheme is fine; I'm not sure exactly how basename and topname interacts. For instance if my basename is 'doc-out/foo', would my topname be 'doc-out/index' or 'index' ? Could you suppress the creation of index.[LANG.]html entirely? Suppose you have two documents, foo.sgml and bar.sgml, and you want to have foo.html and bar.html in the same dir, co-existing... Ardo> For the ultimate flexibility we could even provide an Ardo> 'extension' PI with appropriate defaults (see below). I like this idea. Ardo> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think you should keep the *default* naming semantics just as they >> are in potato. Add a switch for debiandoc2* to use LANG naming. >> Add support for these PIs above, or alternatively, the equivalent >> as flags to the programs. Ardo> Then I would like to take this even one step further and provide Ardo> both with the flags overwriting the PIs. For the flags I Ardo> propose Ardo> -c -- content-negotiation -b -- basename -t -- topname -e -- Ardo> extension Yes -- if it would help get the first version out, it might be easier to just skip the PIs for now? Your call. Ardo> Note that the "default" naming semantics still have in them the Ardo> issue of source file names with a language indicator (as Tapio Ardo> is planning to use) resulting in target file names with this Ardo> language indicator if none of the PIs are set and no command Ardo> line flag is given. But hey, its their choice to do so. Oh, yeah, if the source file is named with language indicator, true.... Ardo> Speaking about the extensions, I would like to make the defaults Ardo> as follows: Ardo> HTML -> .html LaTeX2E -> .tex (was .latex2e) Lout -> .lout Ardo> Texinfo -> .texinfo Text -> .txt (was .text) TextOV -> .tov (was Ardo> .textov) Ardo> DVI -> .dvi PS -> .ps (irrespective of intermediate format) Ardo> PDF -> .pdf (idem) Ardo> If someone e.g. wants to compare the PostScript generated via Ardo> LaTeX2e and Lout, she can always use the command line flags. I agree this is a good idea. I don't think it would break too much to enable this. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
