Le lundi 27 mai 2013 à 20:28 -0400, Ryan Kavanagh a écrit : > In coordination with Norbert Preining, I propose a MBF against all > packages depending on or build-depending on texi2html, asking them to > transition from the `texi2html' utility to the `makeinfo' utility from > the texinfo package, with the end goal of being able to remove the > texi2html package from the archive. This is because: > > 1) texi2html is dead upstream since 2011 and has been superseeded by > Texinfo, as documented on the texi2html front page[0]. > > 2) texi2html is currently orphaned in Debian since 2013-01-13[1] (I > currently have it ITA'd). > > 3) transitioning from texi2html to makeinfo can be done with minimal > effort, see e.g., this patch against bc[2], and now seems to be the > opportune time to perform such a transition.
AFAIK, makeinfo is not able to render @math blocks as images (formatted with LaTeX), while texi2html does. The output of math formulas with makeinfo --html is very ugly, since it basically dumps the Texi/LaTeX source of the formula in the HTML. Unless I am missing something (like a makeinfo option/flag), it means that makeinfo is not a complete replacement of texi2html, and I would therefore prefer to keep texi2html around (until makeinfo grows the missing feature). I use the ability to have nice math formulas in HTML in one of my scientific packages. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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