On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 06:53:30PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> So while changing the name of the directory back to html_node will fix
> some broken link problems, it won't fix them all, and it won't be robust
> in the face of future development. I'm fairly neutral on the
> "html_node" vs. "groff.html.node" naming issue, but I'm downright
> _opposed_ to limiting my (or future contributors') flexibility in
> updating, expanding, reducing, or otherwise mutating the node names of
> the groff Texinfo manual. Those shackles are much too tight.
>
> I don't want to go to the GNU site admins with requests to set up
> unmaintainable-in-CVS symbolic links (or HTTP redirects in the web
> server, whatever they think best) to resurrect some dead links until
> we've decided this issue. So here's what I propose.
You do not need to ask GNU site admins to set up redirects for you.
You can do it with the @anchor command in Texinfo. From Info node
"(texinfo)@anchor":
... when you delete or rename a node, it is
usually a good idea to define an ‘@anchor’ with the old name. That way,
any links to the old node, whether from other Texinfo manuals or general
web pages, keep working.
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040anchor.html
