doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn



[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render Texinfo
inside the ikiwiki environment.
The plugin is available at http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/texinfo.pm.
It's very basic at the moment, but will be improved over time.
Issues
N-to-M Mapping of Input and Output Files
Conventional ikiwiki [[htmlizeing|plugins/write#index6h3]] plugins
have a one-to-one mapping of input file and output file:
some/where/page.mdwn is rendered to some/where/page.html.
This can also be achieved for Texinfo files, but is somewhat
unusual there, when rendering them to HTML.  In general, there
is a N-to-M mapping:

N Texinfo input files (a main .texi file,
several helper files (fdl.texi, version.texi, ...), and
additional text files which are included from the main .texi
file, e.g. history.texi, libfoo.texi, libbar.texi.
M Texinfo output files: the main .texi file (which includes
the other input files) is usually rendered into a (flat) hierarchy
of HTML files, one file per node, see the table on
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/#Top
for an example.

How to teach this to ikiwiki?
Copyright and Licensing Snippets
ikiwiki (obviously) doesn't understand (parse) the copyright and licensing
statements which are included in .texi files.