Re: [help-texinfo] texi2any --html 5.1 Questionable Header Link

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:42:06PM -0700, Anthony G. Bradford wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have placed texinfo HTML output in the root of a public_html webserver 
> directory 
> makeinfo --html 4.13 produced HTML header output of the following:
> 
> Next: Chapter1, Up: (dir)
> 
> selecting "(dir)" makes the browser try to resolve ../index.html#dir or  
> hostname:8080/index.html#dir
> #dir is not a valid anchor for index.html but the webserver has a index.html
> on that directory level and does not error out.
> 
> texi2any --html 5.1 produced HTML header output of the following:
> 
> Next: Team Members, Up: (dir)   [Contents][Index]
> 
> select "(dir)" makes the browser try to resolve ../dir/index.html or 
> hostname:8080/dir/index.html
> 
> Which errors out. Wouldn't pointing to ../index.html#dir be better?
> Most levels of a webserver directory system have a index.html and this would 
> be
> less likely to error out even if the anchor is bad.

There is a customization variable for that url, it is TOP_NODE_UP_URL.

As for changing it in the default case, I am not sure.  The way it is
right now follows the cross ref rules.  If the manual is not split, the
url is dir.html#Top.

I see no specific reason to use ../index.html, it is likely to be
incorrect in general.  I agree that the current situation is not
perfect, but I am not sure that using ../index.html would be better than
following the specification for external manuals.

-- 
Pat