Copyright (C) 2000-2012 |
GNU Info (texi2html.info)whytexi2htmlWhy `texi2html' and not `makeinfo'? =================================== The basic idea of `makeinfo''s HTML output was to get an readable HTML output. Nothing sophisticated nor good styling just readable. The current development of texi2html is going into different direction. The main purpose is to get better styling, better design etc. of the created HTML pages. This way is supported using differnt command line options and of course possible changings of the initialization file to fit your own needs. The main disadvantage of makeinfo's HTML output is your getting only one big file. This is of course readable but not very usable. The problem of this is, while you like to have splitted chapters or nodes the Texinfo source has to be read at minimum twice times. This makes it impossible to implement this in `makeinfo'. This would result in complete new implementation of `makeinfo''s source. In contrast to the HTML produced by `makeinfo --html' (the `makeinfo' program is part of the Texinfo distribution), the HTML output of `texi2html' is highly configurable. Among other differences, with `texi2html' allows you to customize your entire page layout (like headers, footers, style sheets, etc), split documents at various levels, and use `latex2html' to convert `@tex' sections. `texi2html' should reasonably convert all Texinfo 4.0 constructs. If not, please send a bug report to <texi2html@mathematik.uni-kl.de>. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |