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 -- Pat
