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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn
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--- a/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/texinfo.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
-[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render [Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
+[[!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.
 
 inside the ikiwiki environment.
 

+This plugin is not neccessarily meant to enable people to write arbitrary
+wiki pages in the Texinfo format (even though that is possible, of course),
+but rather to ease collaboration on existing Texinfo documents.
+

 The plugin is available at <http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/texinfo.pm>.
 
 It's very basic at the moment, but will be improved over time.
 The plugin is available at <http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/texinfo.pm>.
 
 It's very basic at the moment, but will be improved over time.


@@ -20,20 +27,13 @@ is a N-to-M mapping:
 * N Texinfo input files (a main `.texi` file,
   several helper files (`fdl.texi`, `version.texi`, ...), and
   additional text files which are included from the main `.texi`
 * N Texinfo input files (a main `.texi` file,
   several helper files (`fdl.texi`, `version.texi`, ...), and
   additional text files which are included from the main `.texi`

-  file, e.g. `history.texi`, `libfoo.texi`, `libbar.texi`.
-* M Texinfo output files: the main `.texi` file (which `include`s
-  the other input files) is usually rendered into a (flat) hierarchy
-  of HTML files, one file per node, see the table on
-  <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/#Top>
-  for an example.
-
-How to teach this to ikiwiki?  --[[tschwinge]]
+  file, e.g. `history.texi`, `libfoo.texi`, `libbar.texi`.  --[[tschwinge]]

 
 > As far as multiple input files, you'd need to use add_depends()
 > to let ikiwiki know that a change to any of those files should cause a
 > rebuild of the "main" file. --[[Joey]]
 
 
 > As far as multiple input files, you'd need to use add_depends()
 > to let ikiwiki know that a change to any of those files should cause a
 > rebuild of the "main" file. --[[Joey]]
 

->> I'll see about a frob to get `makeinfo` provide me with a list of files
+>> (?) I'll see about a frob to get `makeinfo` provide me with a list of additional files

 >> it used for rendering a given `.texi` file. --[[tschwinge]]
 
 > I guess you'd also have to somehow deal with
 >> it used for rendering a given `.texi` file. --[[tschwinge]]
 
 > I guess you'd also have to somehow deal with


@@ -41,7 +41,18 @@ How to teach this to ikiwiki?  --[[tschwinge]]
 > what the best way would be to avoid that. --[[Joey]]
 
 >> Might it be an option to simply not render the pages that are already
 > 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
+  of HTML files, one file per node, see the table on
+  <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/#Top>
+  for an example.  --[[tschwinge]]

 
 > Ikiwiki is perfectly happy with a page creating other files (see eg, the
 > img and teximg plugins, as well as the inline plugin's rss generation).
 
 > Ikiwiki is perfectly happy with a page creating other files (see eg, the
 > img and teximg plugins, as well as the inline plugin's rss generation).


@@ -55,14 +66,50 @@ How to teach this to ikiwiki?  --[[tschwinge]]
 > appear in a site map, be linked to, etc). Not sure how to do that,
 > and perhaps you could get away without doing it actually. --[[Joey]]
 
 > appear in a site map, be linked to, etc). Not sure how to do that,
 > and perhaps you could get away without doing it actually. --[[Joey]]
 

-
-## Copyright and Licensing Snippets
-
-ikiwiki (obviously) doesn't understand (parse) the copyright and licensing
-statements which are included in `.texi` files.  --[[tschwinge]]
+>> Currently I use `makeinfo --no-split` and render to stdout, so that I can
+>> easily capture the output and stuff it into the appropriate ikiwiki data structure.
+>> If we want to have multiple output files (which we'll eventually want to have,
+>> to avoid having such large single-file outputs), we won't be able to
+>> do this anymore.
+>> (?) Then we'll need a way to find the main output file, which
+>> will be the one to be copied into what ikiwiki expects to be the main output
+>> of the rendered `.texi` file.
+>> Perhaps (again) parse the `.texi` file for a `@setfilename` statement?
+>> The other generated files will also have to
+>> copied somewhere (preferably into a subdirectory named alike the main file
+>> to avoid name space collisions; but need to take care of links between the files then)
+>> and need to be registed within the ikiwiki system.
+>> --[[tschwinge]]
+
+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: 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]]

 
 
 ## `makeinfo` Output
 
 `makeinfo --html` is being used for rendering.  It creates stand-alone
 
 
 ## `makeinfo` Output
 
 `makeinfo --html` is being used for rendering.  It creates stand-alone

-HTML files, while ikiwiki only needs the files' `<body>`s.  --[[tschwinge]]
+HTML files, while ikiwiki only needs the files' `<body>`s.
+
+(?) 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.