+[[!template id=plugin name=texinfo author="[[tschwinge]]"]]
+
[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render
[GNU Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
inside the ikiwiki environment.
> what the best way would be to avoid that. --[[Joey]]
>> Might it be an option to simply not render the pages that are already
->> being used as an `include` file for another `.texi` file? --[[tschwinge]]
+>> being used as an `include` file for another `.texi` file?
+>> But how to assemble that list before actually having rendered all `.texi` files?
+>> One possibility might be to already render them at ikiwiki's *scanning* stage and
+>> store the rendered HTML files into temporary directories, and then at ikiwiki's
+>> *rendering* stage simply install the desired ones into the main tree and discard
+>> the others. --[[tschwinge]]
* M Texinfo output files: the main `.texi` file (which `include`s
the other input files) is usually rendered into a (flat) hierarchy
There needs to be some logic to establish a mapping between the *N* input files
and the *M* output files.
-(At least for web-editing via CGI this is needed.)
-Easiest would be either to leave *M = 1* or to have
-*M = N* and have a one-to-one mapping between *input file n* and *output file m*.
+(At least for web-editing via CGI this is needed: ikiwiki (currently) needs to be able
+to deduce *one* input file from a given output file)
+Easiest would be either to have *N = 1*
+(plus perhaps some input files that are not meant to be editable, like `gpl.texi`)
+or to have
+*M = N* and have a (?) one-to-one mapping between *input file n* and *output file m*
+(which is not possible in Texinfo's `makeinfo` at the moment).
--[[tschwinge]]
(?) One possibility (which is what I'm doing at the moment) is to simply cut away
everythin until `<body>` is seen and after `</body>` has been seen. --[[tschwinge]]
+
+
+# Bugs
+
+## Non-functional Texinfo Commands
+
+Those commands are know to not work currently:
+
+* `@printindex`
+* `@shortcontents`
+* `@contents`
+
+This is due to `makeinfo` not providing this functionality if rendering to stdout.