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Generating HTML
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  Besides generating output in the Info format, you can use the
`--html' option to generate output in HTML format, for installation on
a web site (for example).  By default, the HTML output is split at node
level.

  When splitting, the HTML output files are written into a subdirectory.
The subdirectory is named according to the name from `@setfilename'
with any extension removed; for example, HTML output for `@setfilename
emacs.info' would be written into a subdirectory named `emacs'.  If
that directory cannot be created for any reason, then `.html' is
appended to the directory name, as in `emacs.html' (this is necessary
because sometimes the info file is named without an extension, e.g.,
`texinfo').  If the `NAME.html' directory can't be created either,
`makeinfo' gives up.  In any case, the top-level output file within the
directory is always named `index.html'.

  Monolithic output (`--no-split') is named according to `@setfilename'
or `--outfile'.  Cross-document node references are not supported in
monolithic HTML.

  Texinfo input marked up with the `@ifhtml' command will produce
output only with the `--html' option supplied.  Input marked up with
the `@html' is passed literally to the output (suppressing the normal
escaping of input `<', `>' and `&' characters which have special
significance in HTML).

  The `--footnote-style' option is currently ignored for HTML output;
footnotes are linked to the end of the output file.

  The HTML generated is mostly standard (i.e., HTML 2.0, RFC-1866).  The
exception is that HTML 3.2 tables are generated from the `@multitable'
command, but tagged to degrade as well as possible in browsers without
table support.  Please report output from an error-free run of
`makeinfo' which violates the HTML 3.2 DTD as a bug.

  Navigation bars are inserted at the start of nodes, similarly to Info
output.  The `--no-headers' option will suppress this if used with
`--no-split'.  Header `<link>' elements in split output can support
info-like navigation with browsers like Lynx and Emacs W3 which
implement this HTML 1.0 feature.  `@xref' commands to other documents
are generated assuming the other document is available in split HTML
form, and installed in the same HTML documentation tree, at
`../<info-document>/'.