Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 06:34:34PM +0100, Daniel Cerqueira wrote: > > All changes should be considered on their merits, so while it would > good to be standards compliant, it is not the only desideratum. > >> These online stores, need my EPUB file to be in conformance (and they >> rightly use EPUBCheck to test for this conformity). If the EPUB file is >> not in conformance, it won't be published. > > This is a valid argument. I hope we can find a way to support full > EPUB standards compliance in texi2any. > >> I feel bad for others that will be creating non-conformant EPUB files >> with `texi2any --epub3`. So I won't be recommending texinfo for making >> digital books, anymore. >> >> You are hurting the whole Free Software movement, by rejecting >> contributions that make a conformant .texi to EPUB file generation. >> >> Reflect on this action. > > The EPUB output mode and texi2any itself only exist because of the work > on unpaid volunteers. (EPUB was only supported in a Texinfo release > from November 2022.) You can hardly say they have harmed Free Software > by creating this software. > > In general, Free Software will be helped by making texi2any as good > as it can be. Please consider that there are consequences to your > proposed changes that should be considered, even though they have > some benefits - while they may make it better in some ways, it may > also make it worse. We do not automatically make changes without thinking > about them.
I am sorry about my observations about you, the Texinfo team, hurting the whole Free Software movement. I agree that this is not the truth. I know that you don't want to quickly release my patch when you are now closing a Texinfo version. So I am sending this email, to see if my patches are accepted on a next release, or urge you to make the generation of EPUB by Texinfo, in compliance with the EPUB standard. Been the compliance done with CSS, or maybe not using the Texinfo HTML generator, and creating a dedicated EPUB's XML generator. In order for the index table border to be in compliance. Regardind the dcterms:modified, you may want to increase complexity, trying to make Texinfo builds reproducible.... For me that is a lost cause since the pdftex does not, and won't, make PDF builds reproducible either (and Texinfo depends on (La)TeX). I would like to discuss your opinions in regard of the EPUB compliance, to see where you stand, and to summarize which ideas do you think is the best approach, for the next release.
