[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render [Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/) inside the ikiwiki environment. The plugin is available at . It's very basic at the moment, but will be improved over time. # Issues ## N-to-M Mapping of Input and Output Files Conventional ikiwiki [[*htmlize*ing|plugins/write#index6h3]] plugins have a one-to-one mapping of input file and output file: `some/where/page.mdwn` is rendered to `some/where/page.html`. This can also be achieved for Texinfo files, but is somewhat unusual there, when rendering them to HTML. In general, there is a N-to-M mapping: * N Texinfo input files (a main `.texi` file, several helper files (`fdl.texi`, `version.texi`, ...), and additional text files which are included from the main `.texi` file, e.g. `history.texi`, `libfoo.texi`, `libbar.texi`. * M Texinfo output files: the main `.texi` file (which `include`s the other input files) is usually rendered into a (flat) hierarchy of HTML files, one file per node, see the table on for an example. How to teach this to ikiwiki? ## Copyright and Licensing Snippets ikiwiki (obviously) doesn't understand (parse) the copyright and licensing statements which are included in `.texi` files. ## `makeinfo` Output `makeinfo --html` is being used for rendering. It creates stand-alone HTML files, while ikiwiki only needs the files' ``s.