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diff --git a/contrib/texinfo/TODO b/contrib/texinfo/TODO index de5b571..6df65a8 100644 --- a/contrib/texinfo/TODO +++ b/contrib/texinfo/TODO @@ -1,35 +1,79 @@ -If you are interested in working on any of these, -email bug-texinfo@prep.ai.mit.edu. +If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org. -* Use Automake. +* Makeinfo: + - HTML output is being actively worked on, and with luck will be in + the next release. + - 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. -* Use a config header file instead of @DEFS@. +* TeX: + - Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the + table of contents, aux, and index files. Eliminate all the crazy + multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts. + - Handle @hsep and @vsep in @multitables. -* 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 come close. +* 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. + - Repeat TeX run until cross-references stabilize, not just twice. + (Document this in manual and fix texi2dvi.) + - 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'. + - Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type. -* Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX, - unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support. +* Language: + - @figure: +@figure [xref-label] +@figureinclude <filename>, [<height>], [<width>] +@figurehsize <dimen> +@figurevsize <dimen> +@caption ... @end caption +<arbitrary Texinfo commands> +@end figure + - @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's. + - @part sectioning command. + - Anchors a la HTML? + - Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices. + - @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. + - Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX, + unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support. -* The dark corner symbol for the gawk manual. +* 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 + for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions. -* Better i18n support, including support for 8-bit input - characters. Requires fonts, and the DC fonts are not (as of this - writing) free. +* Info: + - 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, etc. + - q within help should quit help like C-x 0. + - Full-text search on all available info files. + - Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps tkinfo: + http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/. + - 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) -* @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk. - -* @figure. - -* HTML output in makeinfo. - -* Include a complete functional summary, a la a reference card, in the manual. - -* Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the - table of contents, aux, and index files. Eliminate all the crazy - redefinitions of every Texinfo command (which lists always seem to be - incomplete). - -* Improve the manuals for makeinfo, standalone info, etc. +* Install-info: + - be able to copy the info file to compile-time $(infodir), to + simplify by-hand installation. |
