Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html

[Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > >From gdb/doc/Makefile.in:
> > 
> > # Note that texinfo 4.0's makeinfo --html can only generate a
> > # single file, which would be too large, so continue to use
> > # texi2html. -sts 2000-03-28
> 
> March 2000?  That's ages ago ;-)

Yep.  But 4.0 is still the latest released version.  :( 

> Anyway, there are versions of Texinfo on alpha.gnu.org which support
> split by node.  Also, I have a small program I wrote years ago which
> can split an HTML file produced by makeinfo by nodes (and rewrite all
> the xrefs, so they stay valid).

Wow!

> texi2html has a problem that it doesn't support all the latest
> additions to Texinfo, so using it will put a drag on us when we will
> want to use those new features.  (Did someone see what do @ifnothtml
> and @ifnottex do in texi2html?)

Oh, texi2html is a total mess.  Code to handle -glossary is actually
present in the code, but I couldn't follow the logic far enough to see
why it didn't work.

I'd much rather use makeinfo, if it behaves acceptably.

If you know the folks maintaining texinfo, is there any chance you
could prompt them to look over the patch I sent them last week?