sharing info pages via HTTP hyperlinks

2021-10-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Let's say we are reading e.g., (info "(make) Instead of Execution") and want to share it with someone via a hyperlink. It would be nice if emacs / info etc. had a keystroke to copy https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Instead-of-Execution.html somehow.

Re: second argument of @pxref fails to reflow text

2021-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 03:35:23PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > When an @pxref{} command has a second argument, the subsequent text is > arranged as if the text of the first argument were *also* there. The text of the first argument *is* there: > The '@copying' command should be

second argument of @pxref fails to reflow text

2021-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, When an @pxref{} command has a second argument, the subsequent text is arranged as if the text of the first argument were *also* there. To reproduce, run in the source tree of texinfo-6.8: info doc/texinfo.info writ doc @cop See that the first paragraph looks like this: The '@copy

Re: emacs manuals: make docs (html) issue with the index.html output

2021-10-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:30:59 +0900 > Cc: Texinfo , emacs-devel > > > For HTTP, index.html is a special name that is the file returned if > > no filename component was present in the URL. > > You're right. So that the other index that needs to be named in a di

Re: emacs manuals: make docs (html) issue with the index.html output

2021-10-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Please remove emacs-devel from this discussion, this is not an Emacs issue.

Re: emacs manuals: make docs (html) issue with the index.html output

2021-10-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:31:28 +0900 > > I am not sure whether this is an emacs "make" issue or a texinfo issue so I > am sending this report to the 2 lists. It's a Texinfo issue. Please in the future don't cross-post; instead, post to one list, and if told to

Re: emacs manuals: make docs (html) issue with the index.html output

2021-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
>> When running "make docs" to produce the emacs manuals HTML sets with the >> following options: >> >> HTML_OPTS = --split=chapter --html >> >> There are issues with the ToC files and index files in >> >> 1) the elisp reference set >> 2) the lisp intro set >> >> In both cases, the issue seems

Re: emacs manuals: make docs (html) issue with the index.html output

2021-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 03:31:28PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > I am not sure whether this is an emacs "make" issue or a texinfo issue so I > am sending this report to the 2 lists. > > When running "make docs" to produce the emacs manuals HTML sets with the > following options: > > HT

Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader

2021-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Op 18-10-2021 om 21:46 schreef Gavin Smith: > It is technically possible but my preference would be against > displaying the word "see" in most contexts as it is impossible for a > manual author to get rid of if they don't want it. You could imagine > some context where the word "see" shouldn't ap

Re: Revisiting: @pxref does not always produce "see" in info reader

2021-10-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Honestly, I wonder if the "see" could not be simply replaced by just > an arrow, or some other sign that does not require localization (in > the context of technical manuals). I like the idea using an arrow: in all left-to-right scripts, the arrow would be before the reference, thus solving th