Re: [help-texinfo] adding <link rel="canonical" ...>

[Marc Glisse]

(it looks like I never received this email:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2012-02/msg00001.html
I know that makes my reply quite late...)

Patrice Dumas, Feb 2012:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:07:46AM +0100, Marc Glisse wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am looking for a way to add <link rel="canonical" href="somewhere/$file" 
> > /> to the headers of the generated html pages. With makeinfo, it doesn't 
> > seem possible :-(
> > 
> > So I looked at texi2html (with --node-files to get a similar result), 
> > there is $EXTRA_HEAD, but I couldn't see how to reference the file name 
> > from there (I am not a perl guru).
>
> I don't really understand your quastion here.  With texi2html you can
> use an init files with content:
>
> $EXTRA_HEAD = '<link rel="canonical" href="somewhere/$file"/>';
>
>
> With texi2any, it could be along
> ./texi2any.pl --set EXTRA_HEAD='<link rel="canonical" href="somewhere/$file"/>' 
> --html c.texi
>
> or in an init file
> set_from_init_file('EXTRA_HEAD', '<link rel="canonical" 
> href="somewhere/$file"/>');

Hello,

using any of these techniques inserts $file literally in the html files, 
instead of replacing it with the name of each file.

After reading:
perldoc -q 'How can I expand variables in text strings'

it doesn't seem easy to change that.
(hacking HTML.pm locally is easy, but I'd rather not)

--
Marc Glisse