RFC: PR1922 - empty bullet in html output

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Mon Feb 20 17:50:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://bugzilla.rtems.org/PR1922
>
> After bouncing some emails with the maintainers, they
> agreed this is a bug. But texi2html is deprecated, and
> as previously discussed, not likely to be updated in any
> distribution. A replacement tool is being written
> named texi2any and they are getting close to pre-release
> test snapshots.
>
> Eventually texi2any will be common but not for a while
> and not included on older distributions.  After discussing our
> options, here is what we can do:
>
> + continue to ignore this. :)
> + post process generated html to remove empty bullet
>    with some type of home grown script
> + install development version of texi2any on rtems.org
>   (in an easy to remove directory) so published output is
>   using the latest tools.
>
> I am leaning to accepting the empty bullet when using texi2html
> and move ahead to texi2any so we are ready when it is more
> common.
>
> Comments?
>
My .02: Ignore it and wait for the pre-release snapshot of texi2any.

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