texinfo/TODO

   1 If you are interested in working on any of these,
   2 email bug-texinfo@prep.ai.mit.edu.
   3
   4 * Makeinfo:
   5   - HTML output.
   6   - A detexinfo program, like detex or delatex.  This command would
   7     strip all the texinfo commands out, and would be used as a filter on
   8     the way to a speller.  An option would be to NOT strip comments out.
   9     makeinfo --no-headers comes close.
  10   - If node name contains an @ command, complain explicitly.
  11   - Better ASCII output: convert menus to single table of contents,
  12     enumerate chapters and sections, convert cross-refs and indices to
  13     chapter/section references.  See:
  14        ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq201s.zip
  15
  16 n* TeX:
  17   - Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the
  18     table of contents, aux, and index files.  Eliminate all the crazy
  19     multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts.
  20   - Handle @hsep and @vsep in @multitables.
  21
  22 * General:
  23   - Better i18n support, including support for 8-bit input characters,
  24     and 8-bit output in info.  Perhaps have to use the ec fonts.
  25   - Support compressed image files, automatic generation of .txt
  26     or .jpg from .eps by Ghostscript.
  27   - Repeat TeX run until cross-references stabilize, not just twice.
  28     (Document this in manual and fix texi2dvi.)
  29   - Handle reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to
  30     sectioning and @def... commands.
  31   - Allow : in node names for info files, for names like `class::method'.
  32   - Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type.
  33
  34 * Language:
  35   - @figure:
  36 @figure [xref-label]
  37 @figureinclude <filename>, [<height>], [<width>]
  38 @figurehsize <dimen>
  39 @figurevsize <dimen>
  40 @caption ... @end caption
  41 <arbitrary Texinfo commands>
  42 @end figure
  43   - @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's.
  44   - @part sectioning command.
  45   - Anchors a la HTML?
  46   - Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices.
  47   - @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk.
  48   - Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template.
  49   - The dark corner symbol for the gawk manual.
  50   - Change bars.  This is difficult or impossible in TeX,
  51     unfortunately.  To do it right requires device driver support.
  52
  53 * Doc:
  54   - Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in
  55     the manual.
  56   - Improve the manuals for makeinfo, standalone info, etc.
  57   - Page 39, need a new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi
  58     for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions.
  59
  60 * Info:
  61   - Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have
  62     INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such.
  63   - Better dir file merging.
  64   - Steal interface ideas from Lynx: TAB for navigating to next link
  65     within a page, number links, etc.
  66   - q within help should quit help like C-x 0.
  67   - Full-text search on all available info files.
  68   - Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps tkinfo:
  69     http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/.
  70   - Perhaps process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info:
  71     ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z
  72     + ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman.tar.Z
  73     + Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.
  74     From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)
  75
  76 * Install-info:
  77   - be able to copy the info file to compile-time $(infodir), to
  78     simplify by-hand installation.