Re: [help-texinfo] html relative path

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:16:44AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> When transforming to HTML the images included by the Web browser may:
> 
>   * exist somewhere else under the Web server's root
> 
>   * may be served using no extension (see http://periplum.org/nazari) even
>     though the file on the filesystem may have one
> 
> In both of these cases, being able to use an image path that doesn't actually
> exist is crucial. In the use case of my GNU software that uses Texinfo as an
> input format for Web publishing, this feature is going to be very important.

I guess we can add a command-line switch (--fixed-image-paths or
something) which would cause makeindex ignore the include path (the -I
switch) and just put the filename as is, appending extension if given,
without checking for file existence.

BTW, I've noticed that currently makeinfo in the HTML mode searches
the include path, but when outputting the <img> tag, it just outputs
the filename without the path that it has found.  Does anybody know if
this is by design?

Oleg