Re: [Texi2html-bug] Re: about public domain code in texi2html

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 schrieb Karl Berry:
>     believe me, if you want nice looking texi2html output, you WILL have
>     to copy and modify some of the functions from texi2html.init into
>     your own .init
>
> Then it seems like the defaults need improvement (separate issue, of
> course).

I don't think so. The default is fine if you like plain html files with no 
fancy design, similar to the output of makeinfo --html, but if you want some 
fancy design (like we do with lilypond, for example: 
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/index.html [1]), 
then you need some deeper modifications, e.g. a two-line navigation bar 
instead of the default one-line bar, custom header fields like alternate 
style sheets, different formatting for xref (i.e. no "section blah"), 
different footnote formatting, etc.

The fact that texi2html is so flexible, just calls for pushing it, and for 
that you sooner or later have to modify some internals, defined in 
texi2html.init...

Cheers,
Reinhold

[1]: This is the direct output from texi2html with out init file, the only 
postprocessing done are the insertion of the footer bar (since we can only 
determine the available languages after all files are created) and the 
adjustment of paths in links, since we move files around a bit after 
creation...

PS: With lilypond we don't have a problem with the .init file being GPL, but I 
think texi2html should also be available to other projects, that want to use 
other licenses like BSD or MPL. Those projects might have a problem with 
licensing some config file as GPL and the requirement to explicitly point 
users to the GPL...
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