| 1 | $Id: TODO,v 1.1.1.2 2003-02-28 17:45:33 amb Exp $ |
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| 2 | This is the todo list for GNU Texinfo. |
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| 3 | If you are interested in working on any of these, email bug-texinfo@gnu.org. |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, |
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| 6 | 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation. |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, |
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| 9 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright |
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| 10 | notice and this notice are preserved. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | * General: |
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| 13 | - Test for memory leaks, e.g., with valgrind: |
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| 14 | http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ |
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| 15 | - Rationalize and improve the dir categories in existing manuals. |
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| 16 | See http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-October/013094.html |
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| 17 | (and the containing thread). |
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| 18 | - Extend and improve the tests. |
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| 19 | - Get Info declared as a MIME Content-Type. |
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| 20 | - Support compressed image files. |
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| 21 | - Handle reference card creation, perhaps by only paying attention to |
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| 22 | sectioning and @def... commands. |
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| 23 | - Allow @end (and other?) commands to be indented in the source. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | * Language: |
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| 26 | - @figure, something like: |
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| 27 | @figure [xref-label] |
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| 28 | @figureinclude <filename>, [<height>], [<width>] |
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| 29 | @figurehsize <dimen> |
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| 30 | @figurevsize <dimen> |
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| 31 | @caption ... @end caption |
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| 32 | <arbitrary Texinfo commands> |
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| 33 | @end figure |
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| 34 | - @else for the @if... conditionals. |
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| 35 | - @xindexterm [def] primary [,secondary [,tertiary]] or some such? |
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| 36 | - multicolumn * width to take up `the rest'. |
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| 37 | - another table command to take N succeeding items and split them |
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| 38 | into M columns (see eplain). |
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| 39 | - support bibliographies with BibTeX (see web2c/doc for kludge prototype). |
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| 40 | - @flushboth to combine @flushleft and @flushright, for RFC's. |
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| 41 | - @part sectioning command. |
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| 42 | - Allow subitems and `see' and `see also' in indices. |
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| 43 | - @exercise/@answer command for, e.g., gawk. |
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| 44 | - Allow @hsep/@vsep at @item, instead of just in template. |
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| 45 | - Support automatic line numbering of examples. |
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| 46 | - Better macro syntax. |
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| 47 | - Allow : in node names for info files, for names like |
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| 48 | `class::method'. Likewise index entries. A quoting mechanism such |
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| 49 | as surrounding node names with SPACE BACKSPACE is probably the best |
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| 50 | solution, although this is an incompatible change to Info format, sigh. |
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| 51 | - Change bars. This is difficult or impossible in TeX, |
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| 52 | unfortunately. To do it right requires device driver support. |
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| 53 | wdiff or ediff may be all we can do. |
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| 54 | - @LaTeX{} command to produce the LaTeX logo. |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | * Makeinfo: |
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| 57 | - Try directory of main source file. |
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| 58 | - Support @`{@dotless{i}} et al. in HTML. |
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| 59 | - A detexinfo program, like detex or delatex. This command would |
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| 60 | strip all the texinfo commands out, and would be used as a filter on |
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| 61 | the way to a speller. An option would be to NOT strip comments out. |
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| 62 | makeinfo --no-headers comes close. |
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| 63 | - If node name contains an @ command, complain explicitly. |
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| 64 | - Call Ghostscript to get ASCII/jpg output for the @image command. |
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| 65 | - Better HTML output: allow settable background color, table colors |
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| 66 | and spacing, <head> meta tags, back link from footnote marker, etc. |
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| 67 | - Rewrite completely to simplify generation of different formats. |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | * TeX: |
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| 70 | - Use @ as the escape character, and Texinfo syntax generally, in the |
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| 71 | table of contents, aux, and index files. Eliminate all the crazy |
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| 72 | multiple redefinitions of every Texinfo command in different contexts. |
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| 73 | - Handle @hsep and @vsep in @multitables. |
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| 74 | - Introduce new command to change \bindingoffset. |
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| 75 | - Reasonable way to change fonts from the default (some work has been |
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| 76 | done), to allow for PostScript fonts, for example. |
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| 77 | - How about using latex2html to produce HTML? |
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| 78 | - Support 8-bit input characters, perhaps via the ec fonts. |
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| 79 | - Repeat table headings if a @multitable is multiple pages long. |
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| 80 | - Table of contents gets misaligned if there are 10 or more [sub]sections. |
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| 81 | - Use url.sty (or something) to allow linebreak of url's. |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | * Doc: |
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| 84 | - Include a complete functional summary, as in a reference card, in |
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| 85 | the manual. |
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| 86 | - Improve the manuals, especially for makeinfo, standalone info, etc. |
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| 87 | - new section on doing dedication pages. See gawk.texi |
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| 88 | for an example of doing it in both the tex and info versions. |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | * Info: |
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| 91 | - Regular expression search. |
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| 92 | - Full-text search across all info files installed on the system. |
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| 93 | - Support character sets other than ISO Latin 1. |
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| 94 | - Perhaps comply with LANGUAGE setting on a per-node basis, to allow |
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| 95 | incremental translation of Texinfo files. |
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| 96 | - Search all nodes of dir file at startup, then can have |
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| 97 | INFO-DIR-SEPARATE-GROUPS and other such. |
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| 98 | - Better dir file merging. |
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| 99 | - Steal interface ideas from Lynx: number links, use color, etc. |
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| 100 | Perhaps code from the pinfo viewer can be reused: |
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| 101 | http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/. |
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| 102 | - More sample .infokey files, so people can choose without writing their own. |
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| 103 | - q within help should quit help like C-x 0. |
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| 104 | - Incorporate an X-based viewer, perhaps tkinfo |
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| 105 | http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/ |
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| 106 | or saxinfo. |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | * PDF: |
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| 109 | - make each letter of the index (A, B, ...) a section in the TOC. |
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| 110 | From Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>. |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | * install-info: |
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| 113 | - be able to copy the info file to compile-time $(infodir), to |
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| 114 | simplify by-hand installation. |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | Ideas that will not be implemented: |
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| 118 | - Process Texinfo files directly instead of converting to Info: |
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| 119 | ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/tkman.tar.Z, which |
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| 120 | uses Tcl/Tk 8.0 from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory. |
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| 121 | From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps) |
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| 122 | [This has the disadvantage of needing to be updated when the |
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| 123 | Texinfo language changes, so don't.] |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | - Split HTML output by chapter. |
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| 126 | [Then cross-references in HTML cannot be generated consistently.] |
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