Re: [help-texinfo] Wish: --split-level

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

 >     The config files just need to be
 >     enriched with the level of splitting.

 > The only information available in the @xref command is the node and
 > filename.  So if we're looking at @xref{somenode,,,somemanual}, and we
 > look up somemanual in the config file, and it says that it's split by
 > chapter, what do we do?  We need to generate
 > href="../somemanual/somechapter.html#somenode", but we don't know what
 > "somechapter" is.

I definitely overlooked :(

 > I guess we could write all the chapter/section/etc. names into a config
 > file too, when somemanual was generated, but this does not appeal.

 > Or, we could generate http://somemanual/index.html#somenode, and rely on
 > a javascript redirect (also created when somemanual was generated) to
 > somechapter.html#somenode, but ... I don't like the idea of correctness
 > relying on js.

 > Finally, in general, I am pretty doubtful that anyone will ever bother
 > to actually create/update those config files ...

 > Is there some other way?

Well, you *could* require the destination Texinfo nearby.  That would
also help catching incorrect external @ref{}.

Hm...