Re: [Texi2html-bug] feature request: split-by-number

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:34:35PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
> (I'm not certain whether feature requests should be sent to this mailist; 
> please let know if they shouldn't)

No problem.

> I'd like to split my manual by Table of Contents numbers.  In other words, 
> new HTML pages would be created for
>
> but not for things like
>
> @node bazzle
> @unnumberedsubsec bazzle
>
> @node fooze
> @unnumberedsubsubsec fooze

The possibility would be to set the file name for the elements using 
the element_file_name function reference, documented in the 
'File names' node. There is no example in the texi2html.init file.
But examples that could be used are book.init and mediawiki.init.

> I have one offer of help from a Perl developer (who is unfamiliar with 
> texinfo), so if you would rather concentrate on texinfo compatibility 
> instead of new features like this, I could direct this enquire to him -- or 
> perhaps you could give him some hints as to where to look to implement this 
> new feature.

I don't think such features should be in texi2html, but it should be
easy to do an init file that leads to that result. If it is not the case
then it is a bug. So definitely a perl code should be able to define
element_file_name to do whatever you want.

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Pat