Re: [Chicken-users] wiki->texi converter

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/22/07, Andre Kuehne <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> >> 3. The ordering of sections in the Texinfo document depends on the
> >> order in which the wiki files were parsed. In the example I have
> >> attached, the files are processed in an alphabetical order, and that
> >> results in an illogical section order. The wiki->texi converter is
> >> able to recognize the Next: and Previous: links in the wiki, and it
> >> updates the Texinfo navigational links accordingly, so navigation
> >> works, but the top-level node index is in alphabetical instead of
> >> logical order. Since circular links are allowed in the wiki, this
> >> problem might be very difficult to fix.
> >
> > How about we simply specify the correct order for the files, instead
> > of passing them in alphabetical order?  Would that solve the problem?
>
> I like this idea. Would be nice if one could specify a wiki-page as the
> table of contents, which is simply an ordered list of links to all the
> wiki-pages one would like to include.

The current distribution script (somewhere deep in the chicken darcs
repo, and hopefully soon documented) has a fixed list of wiki pages
to include into the manual anyway, so effectively we have this
situation already. The wiki->texi conversion process doesn't have to
be overly sophisticated as long as the results is presentable.


cheers,
felix