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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn index 07e506948..cb2bf038c 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn @@ -29,6 +29,23 @@ is a N-to-M mapping: How to teach this to ikiwiki? +> As far as multiple input files, you'd need to use add_depends() +> to let ikiwiki know that a change to any of those files should cause a +> rebuild of the "main" file. I guess you'd also have to somehow deal with +> it wanting to render pages for each of the helper files. Not quite sure +> what the best way would be to avoid that. +> +> Ikiwiki is perfectly happy with a page creating other files (see eg, the +> img and teximg plugins, as well as the inline plugin's rss generation). +> The will_render() function supports that. +> +> What hasn't been done though is a page creating more than one other _page_. +> Perhaps you could call IkiWiki::genpage by hand for each additional page. +> You might also want to manipulate each data structure that tracks info about +> pages, adding the additional pages to them, so that they're first class +> pages that work as pages everywhere in ikiwiki (ie, can be inlined, +> appear in a site map, be linked to, etc). Not sure how to do that, +> and perhaps you could get away without doing it actually. --[[Joey]] ## Copyright and Licensing Snippets |