Re: [help-texinfo] html relative path

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:32:59AM +0100, paracetamolo wrote:
> when compiling to html, makeinfo check the presence of each image before 
> inserting the <img> tag, unfortunately my images where in another directory.

In this case, makeinfo should have reported an error (and failed
unless you've specified --force).

> Is that check necessary?

Looks like it is.  For one thing, unless extension is supplied to the
@image command, we wouldn't know the correct filename (makeinfo checks
for .png, .jpg and .gif).  For another, @image will search all include
paths (the -I argument of makeinfo) for the file, so if the file
doesn't exist at any of the paths, we don't know which one to use.

So the only situation when we can reliably refer to a non-existent
file is when @image specifies extension and no -I argument is given to
makeinfo.

I'm not sure of your use for this -- does this still sound useful?

Oleg