Re: A question for package maintainers still using TexInfo < 5

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:22:56AM -0400, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Julien Bect <address@hidden
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > There is an ongoing discussion on this bug report:
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?44899 which is related to the
> > generate_html package.
> >
> > The point is: there is a hack in several functions of the package
> > (html_help_tex, texi2html) which is supposed to deal with a bug in
> > makeinfo. The bug is longer present in recent TexInfo releases, and the
> > hack has some unpleasant side effects.

Hello Michael,

I'm no HTML expert, but wasn't the chief purpose of the hack to
introduce '<p class="functionfile">' ? Does texinfo 5... do this
without the hack (I haven't installed this version)? As I understand
it, with that <p ...> tack one should be able to change the
indentation specifically of the function definitions with CSS. The
'&mdash' seems to have been rather removed 'by the way' by the hack
and was used to find the location to insert the <p ...> tack.

But if texinfo 5... does not introduce &mdash there, and neither
introduces a suitable <p ...> tag (?) there, another indication for
the place to put the <p class="functionfile">' tag would have to be
found, may be before 'Function File:' ? But maybe this can wait until
someone intends to apply a CSS which changes indentation there, don't
know if such a CSS was ever applied for Octave Forge. There seem to be
no strong preferences for a certain formatting at the starts of the
function definitions, so maybe removing the hack without replacing it,
and just using what the currently installed texinfo yields -- mdash or
nothing(?) -- is allright ...

Olaf

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