182 lines
9.1 KiB
Plaintext
182 lines
9.1 KiB
Plaintext
$Id: TODO,v 1.26 2004/11/22 23:57:32 karl Exp $
|
|
This is the todo list for GNU Texinfo.
|
|
If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003,
|
|
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation.
|
|
|
|
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
|
|
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
|
|
notice and this notice are preserved.
|
|
|
|
* General:
|
|
- @euro{}.
|
|
- Support installation of manuals in different languages, along these lines:
|
|
. support a LINGUAS file or variable saying which subdirs LL in the
|
|
source to descend into (under doc/).
|
|
. within each subdir LL, install the info files into $infodir/LL,
|
|
and run install-info on $infodir/LL/dir.
|
|
. info (both emacs and standalone) should read $infodir/$LANG/dir
|
|
as the first dir file, and likewise read info files first from
|
|
$infodir/$LANG, before falling back to $infodir.
|
|
. consider ways to avoid installing images in both places.
|
|
In fact, images probably need to be installed in a subdir
|
|
$infodir/MANUAL/ in the first place, to avoid conflicts of having
|
|
the same image name in different manuals.
|
|
For a test case, see texinfo cvs, with its one translated manual
|
|
(info-fr.texi).
|
|
From Wojciech Polak.
|
|
- Monitor and improve the dir categories in existing manuals,
|
|
following the Free Software Directory categories. Much mail to
|
|
developers has already been sent, what's needed now is to check new
|
|
releases and make sure they are using the right categories.
|
|
See the util/dir-example in the Texinfo distribution for our current
|
|
recommended categories.
|
|
For background, see the thread (which discusses a lot of other
|
|
issues too) at
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00011.html,
|
|
especially
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00090.html
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-10/msg00137.html
|
|
- Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type.
|
|
- Likewise the `info:' URI scheme; a library consortium has proposed a
|
|
completely different purpose for the URI scheme, but I don't know
|
|
how to send comments, despite it being a "request for comments". Sigh.
|
|
There is mail about this in the bug-texinfo archives:
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2003-09/msg00086.html
|
|
- Support compressed image files.
|
|
- Support reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to
|
|
sectioning and @def... commands.
|
|
- Allow @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source.
|
|
- Test for memory leaks, e.g., with valgrind:
|
|
http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
|
|
- Extend and improve the tests.
|
|
|
|
* Language:
|
|
- @else for the @if... conditionals.
|
|
- @xindexterm [def] primary [,secondary [,tertiary]] or some such?
|
|
- Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices.
|
|
- multicolumn * width to take up `the rest'.
|
|
- another table command to take N succeeding items and split them
|
|
into M columns (see eplain).
|
|
- support bibliographies with BibTeX (see web2c/doc for kludge prototype).
|
|
- @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's.
|
|
- @part sectioning command.
|
|
- @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk.
|
|
- Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template.
|
|
- Support automatic line numbering of examples.
|
|
- Better macro syntax.
|
|
- Better def... command syntax.
|
|
- Allow : in node names for info files, for names like
|
|
`class::method'. Likewise index entries. A quoting mechanism such
|
|
as surrounding node names with SPACE BACKSPACE is probably the best
|
|
solution, although this is an incompatible change to Info format, sigh.
|
|
- Glossary/general definition support (dumas msg 28 Nov 2003 17:09:57 +0100).
|
|
- Add support for other Latin 9 (and Latin 2 and Latin 1) characters.
|
|
|
|
* Makeinfo:
|
|
- Translation of "Appendix" etc. should depend on @doclang not $LANG.
|
|
- Try directory of main source file.
|
|
- Make makeinfo -E just do macro expansion, avoiding all error checks.
|
|
That way, texi2dvi could run makeinfo --iftex -E.
|
|
- A detexinfo program, like detex or delatex. This command would
|
|
strip all the texinfo commands out, and would be used as a filter on
|
|
the way to a speller. An option would be to NOT strip comments out.
|
|
makeinfo --no-headers comes close.
|
|
- If node name contains an @ command, complain explicitly.
|
|
- Use @documentlanguage instead of LANG for many translations.
|
|
- HTML: split output by chapter to improve context, per Akim.
|
|
Generate dummy files for all nodes for the sake of cross-references.
|
|
- HTML: support thumbnails.
|
|
- HTML: make images of math, maybe.
|
|
- HTML: allow settable background color, table colors and spacing,
|
|
<head> meta tags, etc. A la http://texi2html.cvshome.org. In fact:
|
|
- HTML: have a library of different CSS styles.
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2004-01/msg00025.html
|
|
- XML: cannot be loaded directly in a browser; why not?
|
|
- Docbook: € and other entities do not work; does anything work?
|
|
- Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats.
|
|
|
|
* TeX:
|
|
- Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the
|
|
table of contents and index files. Eliminate all the crazy
|
|
multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts.
|
|
- Support input in any encoding and language, via ec or Latin Modern fonts.
|
|
- Reasonable way to change fonts from the default (some work has been
|
|
done), to allow for PostScript fonts, for example.
|
|
- @multitable: handle @hsep and @vsep.
|
|
- @multitable: repeat table headings if multiple pages long.
|
|
- @multitable: support a heading line concept (<thead> in HTML).
|
|
- Introduce new command to change \bindingoffset.
|
|
- How about using latex2html to produce HTML?
|
|
- Table of contents gets misaligned if there are 10 or more [sub]sections.
|
|
- Use url.sty (or something) to allow linebreak of url's.
|
|
- Include hyperlink \special's in the DVI output for xdvi, etc.
|
|
- PDF: make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC.
|
|
From Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>.
|
|
|
|
* Doc:
|
|
- Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in
|
|
the manual.
|
|
- Improve the manuals, especially for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.
|
|
- new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi
|
|
for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions.
|
|
|
|
* Info:
|
|
- Regular expression search.
|
|
- Full-text search across all info files installed on the system.
|
|
- Support character sets other than ISO Latin 1.
|
|
- Perhaps comply with LANGUAGE setting on a per-node basis, to allow
|
|
incremental translation of Texinfo files.
|
|
- Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have
|
|
INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such.
|
|
- Better dir file merging.
|
|
- Global dir file (as in /etc/conf/dir) and texinfo config file
|
|
specifying which info directories to search. From Dale Mellor.
|
|
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/private/gnu-prog-discuss/2003q4/000439.html
|
|
- Steal interface ideas from Lynx: number links, use color, etc.
|
|
Perhaps code from the pinfo viewer can be reused:
|
|
http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/.
|
|
- More sample .infokey files, so people can choose without writing their own.
|
|
- q within help should quit help like C-x 0.
|
|
- Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps saxinfo or tkinfo
|
|
http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/
|
|
- Make "info foo bar" search for bar in foo's index(es) if no menu match.
|
|
- Handle M-n, C-u m, and C-u g like Emacs Info (opening new windows).
|
|
- Write technical definition of Info format.
|
|
|
|
* install-info:
|
|
- be able to copy the info file to compile-time $infodir, to
|
|
simplify by-hand installation.
|
|
- also support installing HTML files, etc., along with subsidiary
|
|
@image (or other) files. In subdirs. Or something.
|
|
- support info dir entries for other than the current info file name;
|
|
see comments in menu_item_equal.
|
|
- merge features with Debian install-info, so we can have one program.
|
|
|
|
* texindex:
|
|
- read source file (specified by new option) for @documentlanguage
|
|
and/or @documentencoding, and change the sorting appropriately.
|
|
From: Wojciech Polak, 26 Apr 2003 11:30:59 +0200.
|
|
|
|
* Distribution:
|
|
- generate txi-??.tex from .po's to make translators' jobs easier.
|
|
From Akim and Karl E.
|
|
|
|
Ideas that will not be implemented:
|
|
- Process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info:
|
|
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z, which
|
|
uses Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.
|
|
From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)
|
|
[This has the disadvantage of needing to be updated when the
|
|
Texinfo language changes, so don't.]
|
|
|
|
- Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg output for the @image command.
|
|
[makeinfo should not try to be make, or assume it knows how the user
|
|
wants to generate images. Too many different methods are possible.]
|
|
|
|
- Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX,
|
|
unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support.
|
|
wdiff or ediff may be all we can do. Merely specifying what should be
|
|
changed is not obvious.
|