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If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
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* Makeinfo:
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- Support output of Docbook format and SGML-Tools format.
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- Support output of true 8-bit characters from accent commands, etc.
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- A detexinfo program, like detex or delatex. This command would
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strip all the texinfo commands out, and would be used as a filter on
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the way to a speller. An option would be to NOT strip comments out.
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makeinfo --no-headers comes close.
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- If node name contains an @ command, complain explicitly.
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- Better ASCII output: convert menus to single table of contents,
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enumerate chapters and sections, convert cross-refs and indices to
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chapter/section references. See:
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ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq201s.zip
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- Call Ghostscript to get ASCII output for the @image command.
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- Better HTML output: allow settable background color, table colors
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and spacing, <head> meta tags, back link from footnote marker, etc.
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- Could warn if @sc{TEXT} for all-caps TEXT, since it's a no-op.
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* TeX:
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- Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the
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table of contents, aux, and index files. Eliminate all the crazy
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multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts.
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- Handle @hsep and @vsep in @multitables.
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- Introduce new command to change \bindingoffset.
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- How about using latex2html to produce HTML?
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* General:
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- Better i18n support, including support for 8-bit input characters,
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and 8-bit output in info. Perhaps have to use the ec fonts.
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- Support compressed image files, automatic generation of .txt
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or .jpg from .eps by Ghostscript.
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- Handle reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to
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sectioning and @def... commands.
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- Allow : in node names for info files, for names like `class::method'.
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- Allow @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source.
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- Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type.
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* Language:
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- @figure:
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@figure [xref-label]
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@figureinclude <filename>, [<height>], [<width>]
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@figurehsize <dimen>
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@figurevsize <dimen>
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@caption ... @end caption
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<arbitrary Texinfo commands>
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@end figure
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- support bibliographies with BibTeX (see web2c/doc for kludge prototype).
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- @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's.
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- @part sectioning command.
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- Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices.
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- @verbatim ... @end verbatim.
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- @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk.
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- Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template.
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- The dark corner symbol for the gawk manual.
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- Support automatic line numbering of examples.
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- Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX,
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unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support.
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wdiff or ediff may be better in some cases, anyway.
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* Doc:
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- Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in
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the manual.
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- Improve the manuals for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.
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- Page 39, need a new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi
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for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions.
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* Info:
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- Regular expression search.
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- Allow key rebinding, perhaps through the readline library.
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- Full-text search across all info files installed on the system.
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- Support character sets other than ISO Latin 1.
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- Perhaps comply with LANGUAGE setting on a per-node basis, to allow
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incremental translation of Texinfo files.
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- Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have
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INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such.
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- Better dir file merging.
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- Steal interface ideas from Lynx: TAB for navigating to next link
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within a page, number links, use color, etc. Perhaps code from the pinfo
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viewer can be reused: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/.
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- q within help should quit help like C-x 0.
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- Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps tkinfo
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http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/
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or saxinfo.
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- Perhaps process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info:
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ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z
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+ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman.tar.Z
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+ Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.
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From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)
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(But this has the disadvantage of needing to be updated when the
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Texinfo language changes, so don't.)
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* Install-info:
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- be able to copy the info file to compile-time $(infodir), to
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simplify by-hand installation.
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