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In message <19990306044434.7143.qmail@deer>you write: > Hmm, I haven't looked at the FAQ stuff carefully. But that sounds > like a useful thing to have as well as other things we've discussed. > (E.g. a question like "Where can I find the latest information on known > bugs in [egcs;gcc;g77;g++;etc.]?", and another like "Where can I find > the latest news on what's in recent and upcoming releases?", could > be answered via URLs.) Right. We don't have a good bugs/news section for the main compiler or g++ at the moment. I guess the first step would be to reference gcc/NEWS and gcc/cp/NEWS files (there is not html equivalent for gcc or g++). > >The next problem is figuring out how to get a pointer into the news and > >bugs section. The labels inserted by texi2html are based on section > >number, not the name of the section. I suspect with a little perl work > >we can add an appropriate label that can be referenced from outside the > >document to get to the bugs & news sections. > > Dave Love has, in the past, talked about improvements to texi2html > being important somehow. Sure wish I'd had more time and resources > to pay attention to his concerns *last* year, especially now that I > can more clearly see what he was talking about! Well, it'll be an ongoing project I'm sure. The approach I've taken for now is to have a script look at the generated table of contents file, find the html reference for the bugs and news section and extract its filename. Then it makes a symlink called "g77_news.html" to whatever file actually has the g77 news section. Simlarly for the bugs section. That way we can always get to the news via "g77_news.html" and "g77_bugs.html". Not pretty, but functional. It may be the case that with some magic tags in the texi source that we could do the same automatically. I don't really know enough about texi or texi2html to know if that's possible. jeff