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| author | bapt <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-01-02 18:45:03 +0000 |
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| committer | bapt <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-01-02 18:45:03 +0000 |
| commit | 2f94824303058b32c1056ce52333d8c339423304 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a376369b34e9959bf6c234331c325fc6b9cde60 /contrib/texinfo/TODO | |
| parent | 49eaa137e569415dcea2b6a128bc8560184aa088 (diff) | |
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Remove GNU texinfo from base along with all info pages.
To be able to info pages consider installing texinfo from ports print/texinfo or
via pkg: pkg install texinfo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1409
Reviewed by: emaste, imp (previous version)
Relnotes: yes
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/texinfo/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/texinfo/TODO | 181 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 181 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/texinfo/TODO b/contrib/texinfo/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 0fcaa5c..0000000 --- a/contrib/texinfo/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,181 +0,0 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.26 2004/11/22 23:57:32 karl Exp $ -This is the todo list for GNU Texinfo. -If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org. - - Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation. - - Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, - are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright - notice and this notice are preserved. - -* General: - - @euro{}. - - Support installation of manuals in different languages, along these lines: - . support a LINGUAS file or variable saying which subdirs LL in the - source to descend into (under doc/). - . within each subdir LL, install the info files into $infodir/LL, - and run install-info on $infodir/LL/dir. - . info (both emacs and standalone) should read $infodir/$LANG/dir - as the first dir file, and likewise read info files first from - $infodir/$LANG, before falling back to $infodir. - . consider ways to avoid installing images in both places. - In fact, images probably need to be installed in a subdir - $infodir/MANUAL/ in the first place, to avoid conflicts of having - the same image name in different manuals. - For a test case, see texinfo cvs, with its one translated manual - (info-fr.texi). - From Wojciech Polak. - - Monitor and improve the dir categories in existing manuals, - following the Free Software Directory categories. Much mail to - developers has already been sent, what's needed now is to check new - releases and make sure they are using the right categories. - See the util/dir-example in the Texinfo distribution for our current - recommended categories. - For background, see the thread (which discusses a lot of other - issues too) at - http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00011.html, - especially - http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00090.html - http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00137.html - - Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type. - - Likewise the `info:' URI scheme; a library consortium has proposed a - completely different purpose for the URI scheme, but I don't know - how to send comments, despite it being a "request for comments". Sigh. - There is mail about this in the bug-texinfo archives: - http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2003-09/msg00086.html - - Support compressed image files. - - Support reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to - sectioning and @def... commands. - - Allow @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source. - - Test for memory leaks, e.g., with valgrind: - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - - Extend and improve the tests. - -* Language: - - @else for the @if... conditionals. - - @xindexterm [def] primary [,secondary [,tertiary]] or some such? - - Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices. - - 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. - - @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk. - - Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template. - - Support automatic line numbering of examples. - - Better macro syntax. - - Better def... command 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. - - Glossary/general definition support (dumas msg 28 Nov 2003 17:09:57 +0100). - - Add support for other Latin 9 (and Latin 2 and Latin 1) characters. - -* Makeinfo: - - Translation of "Appendix" etc. should depend on @doclang not $LANG. - - Try directory of main source file. - - Make makeinfo -E just do macro expansion, avoiding all error checks. - That way, texi2dvi could run makeinfo --iftex -E. - - 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. - - Use @documentlanguage instead of LANG for many translations. - - HTML: split output by chapter to improve context, per Akim. - Generate dummy files for all nodes for the sake of cross-references. - - HTML: support thumbnails. - - HTML: make images of math, maybe. - - HTML: allow settable background color, table colors and spacing, - <head> meta tags, etc. A la http://texi2html.cvshome.org. In fact: - - HTML: have a library of different CSS styles. - http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2004-01/msg00025.html - - XML: cannot be loaded directly in a browser; why not? - - Docbook: € and other entities do not work; does anything work? - - Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats. - -* TeX: - - Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the - table of contents and index files. Eliminate all the crazy - multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts. - - Support input in any encoding and language, via ec or Latin Modern fonts. - - Reasonable way to change fonts from the default (some work has been - done), to allow for PostScript fonts, for example. - - @multitable: handle @hsep and @vsep. - - @multitable: repeat table headings if multiple pages long. - - @multitable: support a heading line concept (<thead> in HTML). - - Introduce new command to change \bindingoffset. - - How about using latex2html to produce HTML? - - Table of contents gets misaligned if there are 10 or more [sub]sections. - - Use url.sty (or something) to allow linebreak of url's. - - Include hyperlink \special's in the DVI output for xdvi, etc. - - PDF: make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC. - From Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>. - -* Doc: - - Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in - the manual. - - 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. - - 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 - incremental translation of Texinfo files. - - Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have - INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such. - - Better dir file merging. - - Global dir file (as in /etc/conf/dir) and texinfo config file - specifying which info directories to search. From Dale Mellor. - http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/private/gnu-prog-discuss/2003q4/000439.html - - 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 saxinfo or tkinfo - http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/ - - Make "info foo bar" search for bar in foo's index(es) if no menu match. - - Handle M-n, C-u m, and C-u g like Emacs Info (opening new windows). - - Write technical definition of Info format. - -* install-info: - - be able to copy the info file to compile-time $infodir, to - simplify by-hand installation. - - also support installing HTML files, etc., along with subsidiary - @image (or other) files. In subdirs. Or something. - - support info dir entries for other than the current info file name; - see comments in menu_item_equal. - - merge features with Debian install-info, so we can have one program. - -* texindex: - - read source file (specified by new option) for @documentlanguage - and/or @documentencoding, and change the sorting appropriately. - From: Wojciech Polak, 26 Apr 2003 11:30:59 +0200. - -* Distribution: - - generate txi-??.tex from .po's to make translators' jobs easier. - From Akim and Karl E. - -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.] - -- Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg output for the @image command. - [makeinfo should not try to be make, or assume it knows how the user - wants to generate images. Too many different methods are possible.] - -- Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX, - unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support. - wdiff or ediff may be all we can do. Merely specifying what should be - changed is not obvious. |
