Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02 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: - 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. - Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg output for the @image command. - Better HTML output: allow settable background color, table colors and spacing, meta tags, back link from footnote marker, etc. - Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats. * 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. - 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: - 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 @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source. - Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type. * Language: - @figure: @figure [xref-label] @figureinclude , [], [] @figurehsize @figurevsize @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. - @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. - 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 all we can do. * 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. - 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. * PDF: - make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC. From Carsten Dominik . * 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.]