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author	Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>	2002-06-10 13:21:50 +0000
committer	Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>	2002-06-10 13:21:50 +0000
commit	e9d84711c304eca76d998c83ddae54ec5ec7e5fb (patch)
tree	0a5c4fe0b210dae687f09af716729c6e4ecb155b /gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/TODO
parent	a1e3439457bf8a89e3e52c17fb5f788c736c2470 (diff)

TeXinfo 4.2, much more robust html (and other formats) output, and a few

features that new FSF programs will need (e.g., gcc snapshots). looked at by fgs@, thanks.

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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/TODO b/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/TODO
index a06b40c68f3..295a11cf790 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/TODO
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/TODO

@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@

+Free Software Foundation.

+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or

+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no

+Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.

If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.

* Makeinfo:

- - Support output of Docbook format and SGML-Tools format.

- - Support output of true 8-bit characters from accent commands, etc.

+ - Try directory of main source file.

+ - Support @`{@dotless{i}} et al. in HTML.

- A detexinfo program, like detex or delatex. This command would

strip all the texinfo commands out, and would be used as a filter on

the way to a speller. An option would be to NOT strip comments out.

makeinfo --no-headers comes close.

- If node name contains an @ command, complain explicitly.

- - Better ASCII output: convert menus to single table of contents,

- enumerate chapters and sections, convert cross-refs and indices to

- chapter/section references. See:

- ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq201s.zip

- - Call Ghostscript to get ASCII output for the @image command.

+ - Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg output for the @image command.

- Better HTML output: allow settable background color, table colors

and spacing, <head> meta tags, back link from footnote marker, etc.

- - Could warn if @sc{TEXT} for all-caps TEXT, since it's a no-op.

+ - Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats.

* TeX:

- Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the

@@ -23,16 +28,19 @@ If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.

multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts.

- Handle @hsep and @vsep in @multitables.

- Introduce new command to change \bindingoffset.

+ - Reasonable way to change fonts from the default (some work has been

+ done), to allow for PostScript fonts, for example.

- How about using latex2html to produce HTML?

+ - Support 8-bit input characters, perhaps via the ec fonts.

+ - Repeat table headings if a @multitable is multiple pages long.

+ - Table of contents gets misaligned if there are 10 or more [sub]sections.

* General:

- - Better i18n support, including support for 8-bit input characters,

- and 8-bit output in info. Perhaps have to use the ec fonts.

- - Support compressed image files, automatic generation of .txt

- or .jpg from .eps by Ghostscript.

+ - Rationalize and improve the dir categories in existing manuals.

+ - @xindexterm [def] primary [,secondary [,tertiary]] or some such?

+ - Support compressed image files.

- Handle reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to

sectioning and @def... commands.

- - Allow : in node names for info files, for names like `class::method'.

- Allow @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source.

- Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type.

@@ -45,29 +53,34 @@ If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.

@caption ... @end caption

@end figure

+ - multicolumn * width to take up `the rest'.

+ - another table command to take N succeeding items and split them

+ into M columns (see eplain).

- support bibliographies with BibTeX (see web2c/doc for kludge prototype).

- @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's.

- @part sectioning command.

- Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices.

- - @verbatim ... @end verbatim.

- @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk.

- Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template.

- - The dark corner symbol for the gawk manual.

- Support automatic line numbering of examples.

+ - Better macro syntax.

+ - Allow : in node names for info files, for names like

+ `class::method'. Likewise index entries. A quoting mechanism such

+ as surrounding node names with SPACE BACKSPACE is probably the best

+ solution, although this is an incompatible change to Info format, sigh.

- Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX,

unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support.

- wdiff or ediff may be better in some cases, anyway.

+ wdiff or ediff may be all we can do.

* Doc:

- Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in

the manual.

- - Improve the manuals for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.

- - Page 39, need a new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi

+ - Improve the manuals, especially for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.

+ - new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi

for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions.

* Info:

- Regular expression search.

- - Allow key rebinding, perhaps through the readline library.

- Full-text search across all info files installed on the system.

- Support character sets other than ISO Latin 1.

- Perhaps comply with LANGUAGE setting on a per-node basis, to allow

@@ -75,21 +88,32 @@ If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.

- Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have

INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such.

- Better dir file merging.

- - Steal interface ideas from Lynx: TAB for navigating to next link

- within a page, number links, use color, etc. Perhaps code from the pinfo

- viewer can be reused: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/.

+ - Steal interface ideas from Lynx: number links, use color, etc.

+ Perhaps code from the pinfo viewer can be reused:

+ http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/.

+ - More sample .infokey files, so people can choose without writing their own.

- q within help should quit help like C-x 0.

- Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps tkinfo

http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/

or saxinfo.

- - Perhaps process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info:

- ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z

- + ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman.tar.Z

- + Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.

- From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)

- (But this has the disadvantage of needing to be updated when the

- Texinfo language changes, so don't.)

-* Install-info:

+* PDF:

+ - make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC.

+ From Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>.

+* install-info:

- be able to copy the info file to compile-time $(infodir), to

simplify by-hand installation.

+Ideas that will not be implemented:

+- Process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info:

+ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z, which

+ uses Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.

+ From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)

+ [This has the disadvantage of needing to be updated when the

+ Texinfo language changes, so don't.]

+- Split HTML output by chapter.

+ [Then cross-references in HTML cannot be generated consistently.]