Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)

[Stefan Monnier]

> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can tell, there's nothing very specific in the info
> > format for indices.  There's just a convention that the top node
> > should have one or more entries with names like "Foo Index" and that
> > those subnodes should be made up of just one large menu of xrefs.
> > The same could be done for HTML, I'm sure.
> 
> "makeinfo --html" already creates the index nodes.
> 
> However, to use the indices efficiently (as opposed to just as large 
> menus with links), you need the browser to support the equivalent 
> of Info-index, Info-index-next, etc.  Otherwise, looking up a subject 
> becomes a much more tedious process, especially if the manual has several 
> large indices (e.g., the Emacs manual).
> 
> Is there any browser that supports such feature?  I'm not aware of such a 
> browser.

I thought we were talking about extending/changing info.el to support the
HTML format (or a subset of it).


        Stefan