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$Id: TODO,v 1.8 2003/04/27 13:12:24 karl Exp $
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This is the todo list for GNU Texinfo.
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If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
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2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation.
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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* General:
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- Test for memory leaks, e.g., with valgrind:
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http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
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- Rationalize and improve the dir categories in existing manuals.
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See http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-October/013094.html
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(and the containing thread).
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- Extend and improve the tests.
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- Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type.
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- Support compressed image files.
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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 @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source.
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* Language:
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- @figure, something like:
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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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- @else for the @if... conditionals.
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- @xindexterm [def] primary [,secondary [,tertiary]] or some such?
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- multicolumn * width to take up `the rest'.
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- another table command to take N succeeding items and split them
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into M columns (see eplain).
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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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- @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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- Support automatic line numbering of examples.
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- Better macro syntax.
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- Allow : in node names for info files, for names like
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`class::method'. Likewise index entries. A quoting mechanism such
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as surrounding node names with SPACE BACKSPACE is probably the best
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solution, although this is an incompatible change to Info format, sigh.
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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 all we can do.
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- @LaTeX{} command to produce the LaTeX logo.
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* Makeinfo:
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- Try directory of main source file.
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- Support @`{@dotless{i}} et al. in HTML.
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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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- Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg 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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- Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats.
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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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- Reasonable way to change fonts from the default (some work has been
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done), to allow for PostScript fonts, for example.
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- How about using latex2html to produce HTML?
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- Support 8-bit input characters, perhaps via the ec fonts.
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- Repeat table headings if a @multitable is multiple pages long.
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- Table of contents gets misaligned if there are 10 or more [sub]sections.
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- Use url.sty (or something) to allow linebreak of url's.
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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, especially for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.
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- 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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- 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: number links, use color, etc.
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Perhaps code from the pinfo viewer can be reused:
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http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/.
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- More sample .infokey files, so people can choose without writing their own.
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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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- Write technical definition of Info format.
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* PDF:
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- make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC.
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From Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>.
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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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* texindex:
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- read source file (specified by new option) for @documentlanguage
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and/or @documentencoding, and change the sorting appropriately.
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From: Wojciech Polak <polak@gnu.org>, 26 Apr 2003 11:30:59 +0200.
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Ideas that will not be implemented:
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- 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, which
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uses 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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[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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- Split HTML output by chapter.
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[Then cross-references in HTML cannot be generated consistently.]
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