From 0a4788456c16342c604d3cc402a8211b581b1d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:26:06 -0500 Subject: web commit by tschwinge: About M (M > 1) output files. --- doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/plugins') diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn index fb5784812..e196d7089 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn @@ -59,6 +59,21 @@ is a N-to-M mapping: > 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]] +>> Currently I use `makeinfo --no-split` and render to stdout, so that I can +>> easily capture the output and stuff it into the appropriate ikiwiki data structure. +>> If we want to have multiple output files (which we'll eventually want to have, +>> to avoid having such large single-file outputs), we won't be able to +>> do this anymore. +>> (?) Then we'll need a way to find the main output file, which +>> will be the one to be copied into what ikiwiki expects to be the main output +>> of the rendered `.texi` file. +>> Perhaps (again) parse the `.texi` file for a `@setfilename` statement? +>> The other generated files will also have to +>> copied somewhere (preferably into a subdirectory named alike the main file +>> to avoid name space collisions; but need to take care of links between the files then) +>> and need to be registed within the ikiwiki system. +>> --[[tschwinge]] + ## `makeinfo` Output -- cgit v1.2.3