Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Robert Weiner
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > The external manuals then link to constant > > node names but these always point into the index.html file which > redirects > > them to the specific chapter node entries. > > I doubt that a web page that can redirect to multiple other web pa

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 July 2016 at 17:57, Robert Weiner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote: > My question is can the redirection links provided for external manuals > always be in the index.html file (utilizing the node names in the links) > rather than in per node files? No, that's

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Robert Weiner
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote: > The file names of the chapter > split cannot be known when generating the manual linking to your manual, > so there has to be redirections from split manuals in node files. > ​My question is can the redirection links provided for external

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:40:38PM -0400, Robert Weiner wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > So that links to sections don't change when the manual is split in a > > different way. Otherwise, splitting the manual in a different way > > would invalidate the links.

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Robert Weiner
> On Jul 26, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > So that links to sections don't change when the manual is split in a > different way. Otherwise, splitting the manual in a different way > would invalidate the links. I see. So is there no way to make the redirection links part of the ind

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Robert Weiner > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:29:08 -0400 > Cc: "help-texinfo@gnu.org" > > The nodes corresponding to sections > also had files output, but these didn't contain the actual contents of > the sections, they were redirection pages > > ​So this is what I need to prevent, as I

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Robert Weiner
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: > The nodes corresponding to sections > also had files output, but these didn't contain the actual contents of > the sections, they were redirection pages > ​So this is what I need to prevent, as I think many users would want, i.e. no extra ht

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 23 July 2016 at 20:35, Robert Weiner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Gavin Smith > wrote: >> >> >> As a matter of fact, it did work. The nodes that were level of section >> or lower had redirection pages output for them instead. > > > Is it that you got one file per chapter and the s

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Robert Weiner
And here is the makeinfo script I use. Bob makeinfo Description: Binary data

Re: [help-texinfo] 'makeinfo --html --split=chapter' splits at Texinfo node boundaries, not chapters

2016-07-26 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 06:02:25PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On 22 July 2016 at 17:15, Robert Weiner wrote: > > Is the chapter splitting feature supposed to work? I am using 6.1dev for > > the makeinfo version; the problem has been there since at least 6.0. > > > > I only see a reference to 'no