Re: [help-texinfo] html relative path

[Noah Slater]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:59:34AM +0200, Oleg Katsitadze wrote:
> 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?

When transforming to HTML the images included by the Web browser may:

  * exist somewhere else under the Web server's root

  * may be served using no extension (see http://periplum.org/nazari) even
    though the file on the filesystem may have one

In both of these cases, being able to use an image path that doesn't actually
exist is crucial. In the use case of my GNU software that uses Texinfo as an
input format for Web publishing, this feature is going to be very important.

Thanks,

-- 
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater