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16ea3abe 1\C{output} Halibut output formats
2
339cbe09 3This chapter describes each of Halibut's current \i{output formats}.
4It gives some general information about the format, and also
5describes all the \i{configuration directives} which are specific to
6that format.
16ea3abe 7
8\H{output-text} Plain text
9
339cbe09 10This output format generates the document as a single \i{plain text}
febdf756 11file. No index is generated.
16ea3abe 12
16ea3abe 13The precise formatting of the text file can be controlled by a
14variety of configuration directives. They are listed in the
15following subsections.
16
0a6347b4 17\S{output-text-file} Output file name
18
19\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
20
21\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the text file.
22This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
23parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--text} (see
24\k{running-options}).
25
16ea3abe 26\S{output-text-dimensions} Indentation and line width
27
28This section describes the configuration directives which control
339cbe09 29the \i{horizontal dimensions} of the output text file: how much
16ea3abe 30paragraphs are indented by and how long the lines are.
31
339cbe09 32\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-width\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-width\}\{}\e{width}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 33
339cbe09 34\dd Sets the \I{text width}width of the main part of the document,
35in characters. This width will be used for wrapping paragraphs and
36for centring titles (if you have asked for titles to be centred -
37see \k{output-text-headings}). This width does \e{not} include the
38left indentation set by \cw{\\cfg\{text-indent\}}; if you specify an
16ea3abe 39indent of 8 and a width of 64, your maximum output line length will
40be 72.
41
339cbe09 42\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 43
339cbe09 44\dd Sets the left \i{indentation} for the document. If you set this
45to zero, your document will look like an ordinary text file as
46someone with a text editor might have written it; if you set it
47above zero, the text file will have a \i{margin} down the left in
48the style of some printed manuals, and you can then configure the
49section numbers to appear in this margin (see
50\k{output-text-headings}).
16ea3abe 51
339cbe09 52\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent-code\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent-code\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 53
54\dd Specifies how many extra characters of indentation (on top of
339cbe09 55the normal left indent) should be given to \I{code paragraphs,
56indentation} code paragraphs.
16ea3abe 57
339cbe09 58\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-indent\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-indent\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 59
60\dd Specifies how many extra spaces should be used to indent the
339cbe09 61bullet or number in a \I{bulletted list, indentation}bulletted or
62\I{numbered list, indentation}numbered \I{list, indentation}list.
63The actual body of the list item will be indented by this much
64\e{plus} the value configured by \cw{\\cfg\{text-listitem-indent\}}.
16ea3abe 65
339cbe09 66\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-listitem-indent\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-listitem-indent\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 67
68\dd Specifies how many extra spaces should be used to indent the
69body of a list item, over and above the number configured in
70\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-indent\}}.
71
339cbe09 72\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent-preamble\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent-preamble\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 73
339cbe09 74\dd When this is set to \c{true}, the document \i{preamble} (i.e. any
16ea3abe 75paragraphs appearing before the first chapter heading) will be
76indented to the level specified by \cw{\\cfg\{text-indent\}}. If
77this setting is \c{false}, the document preamble will not be
78indented at all from the left margin.
79
339cbe09 80\S{output-text-headings} \ii{Configuring heading display}
16ea3abe 81
82The directives in this section allow you to configure the appearance
83of the title, chapter and section headings in your text file.
84
339cbe09 85Several of the directives listed below specify the \i{alignment} of
86a heading. These alignment options have three possible values:
16ea3abe 87
339cbe09 88\dt \i\c{left}
16ea3abe 89
90\dd Align the heading to the very left of the text file (column zero).
91
339cbe09 92\dt \i\c{leftplus}
16ea3abe 93
94\dd Align the section title to the left of the main display region
95(in other words, indented to the level specified by
96\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent\}}). The section \e{number} is placed to the
97left of that (so that it goes in the margin if there is room).
98
339cbe09 99\dt \i\c{centre}
16ea3abe 100
101\dd Centre the heading.
102
103Also, several of the directives below specify how a title should be
339cbe09 104\I{underlining}underlined. The parameter to one of these directives
db662ca1 105should be either blank (\cw{\{\}}) or a piece of text which will be
106repeated to produce the underline. So you might want to specify, for
107example, \cw{\\text-title-underline\{=\}} but
108\cw{\\text-chapter-underline\{\-\}}.
109
110You can also specify more than one underline setting, and Halibut
111will choose the first one that the output character set supports.
112So, for example, you could write
65f95f6c 113\cw{\\text-chapter-underline\{\\u203e\}\{\-\}}, and Halibut would use
db662ca1 114the Unicode \q{OVERLINE} character where possible and fall back to
115the ASCII minus sign otherwise.
16ea3abe 116
339cbe09 117\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-title-align\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-title-align\}\{}\e{alignment}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 118
119\dd Specifies the alignment of the overall document title: \c{left},
120\c{leftplus} or \c{centre}.
121
bdc961c7 122\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-title-underline\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-title-underline\}\{}\e{underline-text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 123
124\dd Specifies how the overall document title should be underlined.
125
339cbe09 126\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-align\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-align\}\{}\e{alignment}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 127
128\dd Specifies the alignment of chapter and appendix headings.
129
bdc961c7 130\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-underline\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-underline\}\{}\e{underline-text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 131
132\dd Specifies how chapter and appendix headings should be underlined.
133
339cbe09 134\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-numeric\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-numeric\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 135
136\dd If this is set to \c{true}, then chapter headings will not
137contain the word \q{Chapter} (or whatever other word you have
138defined in its place - see \k{input-sections} and \k{input-config});
139they will just contain the chapter \e{number}, followed by the
140chapter title. If you set this to \c{false}, chapter headings will
141be prefixed by \q{Chapter} or equivalent.
142
339cbe09 143\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 144
145\dd This specifies the suffix text to be appended to the chapter
146number, before displaying the chapter title. For example, if you set
147this to \q{\cw{:\_}}, then the chapter title might look something
148like \q{Chapter 2: Doing Things}.
149
339cbe09 150\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-align\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-align\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{alignment}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 151
152\dd Specifies the alignment of section headings at a particular
153level. The \e{level} parameter specifies which level of section
154headings you want to affect: 0 means first-level headings (\c{\\H}),
1551 means second-level headings (\c{\\S}), 2 means the level below
156that (\c{\\S2}), and so on. The \e{alignment} parameter is treated
157just like the other alignment directives listed above.
158
bdc961c7 159\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-underline\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-underline\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{underline-text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 160
161\dd Specifies how to underline section headings at a particular level.
162
339cbe09 163\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-numeric\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-numeric\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 164
165\dd Specifies whether section headings at a particular level should
166contain the word \q{Section} or equivalent (if \c{false}), or should
167be numeric only (if \c{true}).
168
339cbe09 169\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-section-suffix\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 170
339cbe09 171\dd Specifies the \I{suffix text, in section titles}suffix text to
172be appended to section numbers at a particular level, before
173displaying the section title.
16ea3abe 174
db662ca1 175\S{output-text-characters} Configuring the characters used
176
6b4dfd74 177\dt \I\cw{\\cfg\{text-charset\}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-charset\}\{}\e{character set name}\cw{\}}
178
179\dd This tells Halibut what \i{character set} the output should be
180in. Any Unicode characters representable in this set will be output
181verbatim; any other characters will not be output and their
182\i{fallback text} (if any) will be used instead.
183
184\lcont{
185
186The character set names are the same as for
187\cw{\\cfg\{input-charset\}} (see \k{input-config}). However, unlike
188\cw{\\cfg\{input-charset\}}, this directive affects the \e{entire}
189output; it's not possible to switch encodings halfway through.
190
191}
192
db662ca1 193\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}...\cw{\}}]
194
195\dd This specifies the text which should be used as the \i{bullet}
196in bulletted lists. It can be one character
197(\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}\{-\}}), or more than one
198(\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}\{(*)\}}).
199
200\lcont{
201
6069815a 202Like \cw{\\cfg\{quotes\}} (see \k{input-config}), you can specify multiple
203possible options after this command, and Halibut will choose the first one
204which the output character set supports. For example, you might write
db662ca1 205\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}\{\\u2022\}\{\\u00b7\}\{*\}}, in which case
206Halibut would use the Unicode \q{BULLET} character where possible,
207fall back to the ISO-8859-1 \q{MIDDLE DOT} if that wasn't available,
208and resort to the ASCII asterisk if all else failed.
209
210}
211
212\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-rule\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-rule\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}...\cw{\}}]
213
214\dd This specifies the text which should be used for drawing
215\i{horizontal rules} (generated by \i\c{\\rule}; see
216\k{input-rule}). It can be one character, or more than one. The
217string you specify will be repeated to reach the required width, so
218you can specify something like \q{\cw{-=}} to get a rule that looks
219like \cw{-=-=-=}.
220
221\lcont{
222
223Like \cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}}, you can specify multiple fallback
224options in this command.
225
226}
227
228\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}...\cw{\}}]
229
6069815a 230\dd This specifies a set of quote characters for the text backend,
231overriding any defined by \cw{\\cfg\{quotes\}}. It has the same syntax
232(see \k{input-config}).
db662ca1 233
234\lcont{
235
6069815a 236In this backend, these quotes will also be used to mark text enclosed
237in the \c{\\c} command (see \k{input-code}).
db662ca1 238
239}
240
241\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-emphasis\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-emphasis\}\{}\e{start-emph}\cw{\}\{}\e{end-emph}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{start-emph}\cw{\}\{}\e{end-emph}...\cw{\}}]
242
5b1d0032 243\dd This specifies the characters which should be used to surround
db662ca1 244emphasised text (written using the \c{\\e} command; see
245\k{input-emph}).
246
247\lcont{
248
249You should separately specify the start-emphasis and end-emphasis
250text, each of which can be more than one character if you want.
251Also, like \cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}}, you can specify multiple pairs
252of fallback options in this command, and Halibut will always use a
253matching pair.
254
255}
256
16ea3abe 257\S{output-text-misc} Miscellaneous configuration options
258
db662ca1 259\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
260
261\dd This text is appended to the number on a \i{numbered list} item
262(see \k{input-list-number}). So if you want to label your lists as
263\q{1)}, \q{2)} and so on, then you would write
264\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-suffix\}\{)\}}.
265
339cbe09 266\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-versionid\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-versionid\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 267
339cbe09 268\dd If this is set to \c{true}, \i{version ID paragraphs} (defined
269using the \i\c{\\versionid} command - see \k{input-blurb}) will be
270included at the bottom of the text file. If it is set to \c{false},
271they will be omitted completely.
16ea3abe 272
16ea3abe 273\# FIXME: code indentation is configurable, therefore \quote
274\# indentation probably ought to be as well.
275
276\# FIXME: text-indent-* should be consistently named.
277
278\S{output-text-defaults} Default settings
279
339cbe09 280The \i{default settings} for Halibut's plain text output format are:
16ea3abe 281
0a6347b4 282\c \cfg{text-filename}{output.txt}
283\c
16ea3abe 284\c \cfg{text-width}{68}
285\c \cfg{text-indent}{7}
286\c \cfg{text-indent-code}{2}
287\c \cfg{text-list-indent}{1}
288\c \cfg{text-listitem-indent}{3}
289\c \cfg{text-indent-preamble}{false}
290\c
291\c \cfg{text-title-align}{centre}
db662ca1 292\c \cfg{text-title-underline}{\u2550}{=}
16ea3abe 293\c
294\c \cfg{text-chapter-align}{left}
db662ca1 295\c \cfg{text-chapter-underline}{\u203e}{-}
16ea3abe 296\c \cfg{text-chapter-numeric}{false}
297\c \cfg{text-chapter-suffix}{: }
298\c
299\c \cfg{text-section-align}{0}{leftplus}
300\c \cfg{text-section-underline}{0}{}
301\c \cfg{text-section-numeric}{0}{true}
302\c \cfg{text-section-suffix}{0}{ }
303\c
304\c \cfg{text-section-align}{1}{leftplus}
305\c \cfg{text-section-underline}{1}{}
306\c \cfg{text-section-numeric}{1}{true}
307\c \cfg{text-section-suffix}{1}{ }
308\c
309\c ... and so on for all section levels below this ...
310\e iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
db662ca1 311\c
6b4dfd74 312\c \cfg{text-charset}{ASCII}
db662ca1 313\c \cfg{text-bullet}{\u2022}{-}
314\c \cfg{text-rule}{\u2500}{-}
315\c \cfg{text-quotes}{\u2018}{\u2019}{`}{'}
316\c \cfg{text-emphasis}{_}{_}
317\c
318\c \cfg{text-list-suffix}{.}
319\c \cfg{text-versionid}{true}
16ea3abe 320
321\H{output-html} HTML
322
339cbe09 323This output format generates an \i{HTML} version of the document. By
16ea3abe 324default, this will be in multiple files, starting with
325\c{Contents.html} and splitting the document into files by chapter
326and/or subsection. You can configure precisely how the text is split
327between HTML files using the configuration commands described in
328this section. In particular, you can configure Halibut to output one
0a6347b4 329single HTML file instead of multiple ones.
16ea3abe 330
339cbe09 331Strictly speaking, the output format is \i{XHTML} 1.0 Transitional,
16ea3abe 332which is why all of the configuration directives start with the word
333\c{xhtml} rather than \c{html}.
334
0a6347b4 335\S{output-html-file} Controlling the output file names
336
337\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
338
339\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the top-level
340contents page. Since this is the first page a user ought to see when
341beginning to read the document, a good choice in many cases might be
fc8e7adb 342\c{index.html} (although this is not the default, for historical
0a6347b4 343reasons).
344
345\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-index-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-index-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
346
347\dd Sets the file name in which to store the document's index.
348
349\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}\{}\e{template}\cw{\}}
350
351\dd Provides a \i{template} to be used when constructing the file
352names of each chapter or section of the document. This template
353should contain at least one \i\e{formatting command}, in the form of
354a per cent sign followed by a letter. (If you need a literal per
355cent sign, you can write \c{%%}.)
356
357\lcont{
358
359The formatting commands used in this template are:
360
da090173 361\dt \I{%N-upper}\c{%N}
0a6347b4 362
363\dd Expands to the visible title of the section, with white space
364removed. So in a chapter declared as \q{\cw{\\C\{fish\} Catching
365Fish}}, this formatting command would expand to
366\q{\cw{CatchingFish}}.
367
368\dt \i\c{%n}
369
370\dd Expands to the type and number of the section, without white
371space. So in chapter 1 this would expand to \q{\cw{Chapter1}}; in
372section A.4.3 it would expand to \q{\cw{SectionA.4.3}}, and so on.
373If the section has no number (an unnumbered chapter created using
374\c{\\U}), this directive falls back to doing the same thing as
375\c{%N}.
376
377\dt \i\c{%b}
378
379\dd Expands to the bare number of the section. So in chapter 1 this
380would expand to \q{\cw{1}}; in section A.4.3 it would expand to
381\q{\cw{A.4.3}}, and so on. If the section has no number (an
382unnumbered chapter created using \c{\\U}), this directive falls back
383to doing the same thing as \c{%N}.
384
385\dt \i\c{%k}
386
387\dd Expands to the internal keyword specified in the section title.
388So in a chapter declared as \q{\cw{\\C\{fish\} Catching Fish}}, this
389formatting command would expand to \q{\cw{fish}}. If the section has
390no keyword (an unnumbered chapter created using \c{\\U}), this
391directive falls back to doing the same thing as \c{%N}.
392
393These formatting directives can also be used in the
394\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}} configuration directive (see
395\k{output-html-misc}).
396
397}
398
399\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-single-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-single-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
400
401\dd Sets the file name in which to store the entire document, if
402Halibut is configured (using \c{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}\{0\}} to
403produce a single self-contained file. Both this directive \e{and}
404\c{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}\{0\}} are implicitly generated if you
405provide a file name parameter after the command-line option
406\i\c{--html} (see \k{running-options}).
407
16ea3abe 408\S{output-html-split} Controlling the splitting into HTML files
409
410By default, the HTML output from Halibut is split into multiple
411files. Each file typically contains a single chapter or section and
412everything below it, unless subsections of that chapter are
413themselves split off into further files.
414
415Most files also contain a contents section, giving hyperlinks to the
416sections in the file and/or the sections below it.
417
418The configuration directives listed below allow you to configure the
419splitting into files, and the details of the contents sections.
420
339cbe09 421\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}\{}\e{depth}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 422
423\dd This setting indicates the depth of section which should be
339cbe09 424given a \I{leaf file}\q{leaf} file (a file with no sub-files). So if
425you set it to 1, for example, then every chapter will be given its
426own HTML file, plus a top-level \i{contents file}. If you set this
427to 2, then each chapter \e{and} each \c{\\H} section will have a
428file, and the chapter files will mostly just contain links to their
429\i{sub-file}s.
16ea3abe 430
431\lcont{
432
433If you set this option to zero, then the whole document will appear
434in a single file. If you do this, Halibut will call that file
339cbe09 435\i\c{Manual.html} instead of \i\c{Contents.html}.
16ea3abe 436
0a6347b4 437This option is automatically set to zero if you provide a file name
438parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--html} (see
439\k{running-options}), because you have specified a single file name
440and so Halibut assumes you want the whole document to be placed in
441that file.
442
16ea3abe 443}
444
339cbe09 445\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-depth\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-depth-}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{depth}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 446
339cbe09 447\dd This directive allows you to specify how \I{depth of
448contents}deep the contents section in a particular file should go.
16ea3abe 449
450\lcont{
451
452The \e{level} parameter indicates which level of contents section
453you are dealing with. 0 denotes the main contents section in the
454topmost file \c{Contents.html}; 1 denotes a contents section in a
455chapter file; 2 is a contents section in a file containing a \c{\\H}
456heading, and so on. Currently you can't go below level 5 (which
457corresponds to a \c{\\S3} heading).
458
459The \e{depth} parameter indicates the maximum depth of heading which
460will be shown in this contents section. Again, 1 denotes a chapter,
4612 is a \c{\\H} heading, 3 is a \c{\\S} heading, and so on.
462
463So, for example: \cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-depth-1\}\{3\}} instructs
464Halibut to put contents links in chapter files for all sections down
465to \c{\\S} level, but not to go into any more detail than that.
466
467}
468
469\# FIXME: this is utterly ghastly. For a start, it should include
470\# the level as a separate argument, like the text section config
471\# directives. Secondly, it shouldn't be limited in depth!
472
339cbe09 473\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-contains-contents\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-contains-contents\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 474
475\dd If you set this to \c{true}, then each leaf file will contain
476its own contents section which summarises the text within it.
477
339cbe09 478\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-smallest-contents\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-smallest-contents\}\{}\e{number}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 479
480\dd Contents sections in leaf files are not output at all if they
481contain very few entries (on the assumption that it just isn't worth
482bothering). This directive configures the minimum number of entries
483required in a leaf contents section to make Halibut bother
484generating it at all.
485
486\S{output-html-html} Including pieces of your own HTML
487
488The directives in this section allow you to supply pieces of
339cbe09 489\I{HTML}\i{verbatim HTML} code, which will be included in various
490parts of the output files.
16ea3abe 491
339cbe09 492\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-head-end\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-head-end\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 493
494\dd The text you provide in this directive is placed at the end of
339cbe09 495the \i\cw{<HEAD>} section of each output HTML file. So this is a
496good place to put, for example, a link to a \i{CSS} \i{stylesheet}.
16ea3abe 497
339cbe09 498\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-tag\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-tag\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 499
500\dd The text you provide in this directive is used in place of the
339cbe09 501\i\cw{<BODY>} tag in each output file. So if you wanted to define a
502\i{background colour}, for example, you could write
16ea3abe 503\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-tag\}\{<body bg="#123456">\}}.
504
339cbe09 505\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-start\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-start\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 506
507\dd The text you provide in this directive is placed at the
339cbe09 508beginning of the \i\cw{<BODY>} section of each output HTML file. So
509if you intend your HTML files to be part of a web site with a
510standard \i{house style}, and the style needs a \i{header} at the
511top of every page, this is where you can add that header.
16ea3abe 512
339cbe09 513\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-end\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-body-end\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 514
339cbe09 515\dd The text you provide in this directive is placed at the end of
516the \i\cw{<BODY>} section of each output HTML file. So if you intend
517your HTML files to be part of a web site with a standard \i{house
518style}, and the style needs a \i{footer} at the bottom of every
519page, this is where you can add that footer.
16ea3abe 520
339cbe09 521\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-address-start\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-address-start\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 522
523\dd The text you provide in this directive is placed at the
339cbe09 524beginning of the \i\cw{<ADDRESS>} section at the bottom of each
525output HTML file. This might be a good place to put authors'
526\i{contact details}, for example.
16ea3abe 527
339cbe09 528\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-address-end\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-address-end\}\{}\e{HTML text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 529
339cbe09 530\dd The text you provide in this directive is placed at the end of
531the \i\cw{<ADDRESS>} section at the bottom of each output HTML file,
532after the version IDs (if present).
16ea3abe 533
339cbe09 534\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-navigation-attributes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-navigation-attributes\}\{}\e{HTML attributes}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 535
536\dd The text you provide in this directive is included inside the
339cbe09 537\cw{<P>} tag containing the \i{navigation links} at the top of each
538page (\i{\q{Previous}} / \i{\q{Contents}} / \i{\q{Next}}). So if you
539wanted the navigation links to have a particular CSS style, you
540could write
16ea3abe 541\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-navigation-attributes\}\{class="foo"\}}, and the
542navigation-links paragraph would then begin with the tag \cw{<p
543class="foo">}.
544
339cbe09 545\S{output-html-headings} \ii{Configuring heading display}
16ea3abe 546
339cbe09 547\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-chapter-numeric\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-chapter-numeric\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 548
549\dd If this is set to \c{true}, then chapter headings will not
550contain the word \q{Chapter} (or whatever other word you have
551defined in its place - see \k{input-sections} and \k{input-config});
552they will just contain the chapter \e{number}, followed by the
553chapter title. If you set this to \c{false}, chapter headings will
554be prefixed by \q{Chapter} or equivalent.
555
339cbe09 556\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-chapter-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-chapter-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 557
558\dd This specifies the suffix text to be appended to the chapter
559number, before displaying the chapter title. For example, if you set
560this to \q{\cw{:\_}}, then the chapter title might look something
561like \q{Chapter 2: Doing Things}.
562
78c73085 563\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-section-numeric\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-section-numeric\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 564
565\dd Specifies whether section headings at a particular level should
566contain the word \q{Section} or equivalent (if \c{false}), or should
567be numeric only (if \c{true}). The \e{level} parameter specifies
568which level of section headings you want to affect: 0 means
569first-level headings (\c{\\H}), 1 means second-level headings
570(\c{\\S}), 2 means the level below that (\c{\\S2}), and so on.
571
78c73085 572\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-section-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-section-suffix\}\{}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 573
574\dd Specifies the suffix text to be appended to section numbers at a
575particular level, before displaying the section title.
576
577\S{output-html-misc} Miscellaneous options
578
0a6347b4 579\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}\{}\e{template}\cw{\}}
580
581\dd This directive lets you specify a \i{template}, with exactly the
582same syntax used in \cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}} (see
fc8e7adb 583\k{output-html-file}), to be used for the anchor names (\i\cw{<A
584NAME="...">}) used to allow URLs to refer to specific sections
585within a particular HTML file. So if you set this to \q{\cw{%k}},
586for example, then each individual section in your document will be
0a6347b4 587addressable by means of a URL ending in a \c{#} followed by your
588internal section keyword.
589
339cbe09 590\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-versionid\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-versionid\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 591
339cbe09 592\dd If this is set to \c{true}, \i{version ID paragraphs} (defined using
593the \i\c{\\versionid} command - see \k{input-blurb}) will be included
594visibly in the \i\cw{<ADDRESS>} section at the bottom of each HTML
16ea3abe 595file. If it is set to \c{false}, they will be omitted completely.
596
597\# FIXME: surely it would be better to include them in HTML
598\# comments? The only question is whether they should be _visible_.
599
339cbe09 600\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-suppress-address\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-suppress-address\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 601
339cbe09 602\dd If this is set to \c{true}, the \i\cw{<ADDRESS>} section at the
16ea3abe 603bottom of each HTML file will be omitted completely. (This will
339cbe09 604therefore also cause \i{version IDs} not to be included.)
16ea3abe 605
339cbe09 606\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-author\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-author\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 607
339cbe09 608\dd The text supplied here goes in a \I{\cw{<META>} tags}\cw{<META
609name="author">} tag in the output HTML files, so that browsers which
610support this can automatically identify the \i{author} of the document.
16ea3abe 611
339cbe09 612\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-description\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-description\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 613
339cbe09 614\dd The text supplied here goes in a \I{\cw{<META>} tags}\cw{<META
615name="description">} tag in the output HTML files, so that browsers
616which support this can easily pick out a brief \I{description, of
617document}description of the document.
16ea3abe 618
619\S{output-html-defaults} Default settings
620
339cbe09 621The \i{default settings} for Halibut's HTML output format are:
16ea3abe 622
0a6347b4 623\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-filename}{Contents.html}
624\c \cfg{xhtml-index-filename}{IndexPage.html}
625\c \cfg{xhtml-template-filename}{%n.html}
626\c \cfg{xhtml-single-filename}{Manual.html}
627\c \cfg{xhtml-template-fragment}{%b}
628\c
16ea3abe 629\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-level}{2}
630\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-contains-contents}{false}
631\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-smallest-contents}{4}
632\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-0}{2}
633\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-1}{3}
634\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-2}{4}
635\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-3}{5}
636\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-4}{6}
637\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-depth-5}{7}
638\c
639\c \cfg{xhtml-head-end}{}
640\c \cfg{xhtml-body-tag}{<body>}
641\c \cfg{xhtml-body-start}{}
642\c \cfg{xhtml-body-end}{}
643\c \cfg{xhtml-address-start}{}
644\c \cfg{xhtml-address-end}{}
645\c \cfg{xhtml-navigation-attributes}{}
646\c
647\c \cfg{xhtml-versionid}{true}
648\c \cfg{xhtml-suppress-address}{false}
649\c \cfg{xhtml-author}{}
650\c \cfg{xhtml-description}{}
651\c
652\c \cfg{xhtml-chapter-numeric}{false}
653\c \cfg{xhtml-chapter-suffix}{: }
654\c
655\c \cfg{xhtml-section-numeric}{0}{true}
656\c \cfg{xhtml-section-suffix}{0}{ }
657\c
658\c \cfg{xhtml-section-numeric}{1}{true}
659\c \cfg{xhtml-section-suffix}{1}{ }
660\c
661\c ... and so on for all section levels below this ...
662\e iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
663
664\H{output-whlp} Windows Help
665
339cbe09 666This output format generates data that can be used by the \i{Windows
0a6347b4 667Help} program \cw{WINHELP.EXE}. There are two actual files
668generated, one ending in \c{.hlp} and the other ending in \c{.cnt}.
669
6b4dfd74 670Currently, the output is harcoded to be in the \q{\i{Win1252}}
671character set.
6069815a 672
0a6347b4 673The Windows Help output format supports the following configuration
674directives:
675
6b4dfd74 676\S{output-whlp-file} Output file name
677
0a6347b4 678\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
679
680\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the man page.
681This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
682parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--winhelp} (see
683\k{running-options}).
684
685\lcont{
686
687Your output file name should end with \c{.hlp}; if it doesn't,
688Halibut will append it. Halibut will also generate a contents file
689(ending in \c{.cnt}) alongside the file name you specify.
690
691}
16ea3abe 692
6b4dfd74 693\S{output-whlp-characters} Configuring the characters used
694
695\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-bullet\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-bullet\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}...]
696
697\dd Specifies the text to use as the \i{bullet} in bulletted lists.
698You can specify multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
699\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}} directive (see
700\k{output-text-characters}).
701
702\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-quotes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-quotes\}\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}...\cw{\}}]
703
704\dd Specifies the quotation marks to use, overriding any
705\cw{\\cfg\{quotes\}} directive. You can specify multiple
706fallback options. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}}
707directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
708
709\S{output-whlp-misc} Miscellaneous configuration options
710
6069815a 711\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-contents-titlepage\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-contents-titlepage\}\{}\e{title}\cw{\}}
712
713\dd Sets the text used to describe the help page containing the blurb
714(see \k{input-blurb}) and table of contents.
715
716\dt
717\I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-section-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-section-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
718
719\dd Specifies the \I{suffix text, in section titles}suffix text to
720be appended to section numbers, before displaying the section title.
721(Applies to all levels.)
722
723\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-list-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-list-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
724
725\dd This text is appended to the number on a \i{numbered list} item,
726in exactly the same way as \cw{\\cfg\{text-list-suffix\}} (see
6069815a 727\k{output-text-characters}).
728
339cbe09 729\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}\{}\e{topic-name}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 730
339cbe09 731\dd This directive defines a Windows \i{Help topic} name in the current
16ea3abe 732section. Topic names can be used by the program invoking
733\cw{WINHELP.EXE} to jump straight to a particular section. So you
339cbe09 734can use this for \i{context-sensitive help}.
16ea3abe 735
736\lcont{
737
738For example, if you used this directive in a particular section:
739
740\c \cfg{winhelp-topic}{savingfiles}
741
742then a Windows application could invoke Windows Help to jump to that
743particular section in the help file like this:
744
745\c WinHelp(hwnd, "mydoc.hlp", HELP_COMMAND,
746\c (DWORD)"JI(`',`savingfiles')");
747
748You can use this configuration directive many times, in many
749different subsections of your document, in order to define a lot of
750different help contexts which you can use in this way.
751
752}
753
6b4dfd74 754\S{output-whlp-defaults} Default settings
755
0a6347b4 756The \i{default settings} for the Windows Help output format are:
757
758\c \cfg{winhelp-filename}{output.hlp}
6b4dfd74 759\c
760\c \cfg{winhelp-bullet}{\u2022}{-}
761\c \cfg{winhelp-quotes}{\u2018}{\u2019}{"}{"}
762\c
6069815a 763\c \cfg{winhelp-contents-titlepage}{Title page}
764\c \cfg{winhelp-section-suffix}{: }
765\c \cfg{winhelp-list-suffix}{.}
0a6347b4 766
767and no \c{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}} directives anywhere.
768
16ea3abe 769\H{output-man} Unix \cw{man} pages
770
339cbe09 771This output format generates a Unix \i{\cw{man} page}. That is to say,
772it generates \i\c{nroff} input designed to work with the \c{-mandoc}
16ea3abe 773macro package.
774
775The available configuration options for this format are as follows:
776
6b4dfd74 777\S{output-man-file} Output file name
778
0a6347b4 779\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
780
781\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the man page.
782This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
783parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--man} (see
784\k{running-options}).
785
6b4dfd74 786\S{output-man-identity} Configuring headers and footers
787
339cbe09 788\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-identity\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-identity\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}\{}\e{text...}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 789
339cbe09 790\dd This directive is used to generate the initial \i{\c{.TH}
791directive} that appears at the top of a \cw{man} page. It expects to
792be followed by some number of brace pairs containing text, which will
793be used in the \i{headers} and \i{footers} of the formatted output.
16ea3abe 794
795\lcont{
796
797A traditional order for the arguments appears to be:
798
799\n The name of the program.
800
801\n The (numeric) manual section.
802
803\n The date that the \cw{man} page was written.
804
805\n The name of any containing suite of which the program is a part.
806
339cbe09 807\n The name of the \i{author} of the \cw{man} page.
16ea3abe 808
809For example, a typical \cw{man} page might contain
810
fc8e7adb 811\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred
812\c Bloggs}
16ea3abe 813
814}
815
6b4dfd74 816\S{output-man-headings} Configuring heading display
817
339cbe09 818\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-headnumbers\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-headnumbers\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 819
339cbe09 820\dd If this is set to \c{true}, then \i{section headings} in the
821\cw{man} page will have their \i{section numbers} displayed as usual. If
16ea3abe 822set to \c{false}, the section numbers will be omitted. (\cw{man}
823pages traditionally have section names such as \q{SYNOPSIS},
824\q{OPTIONS} and \q{BUGS}, and do not typically number them, so
825\c{false} is the setting which conforms most closely to normal
826\cw{man} style.)
827
339cbe09 828\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-mindepth\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-mindepth\}\{}\e{depth}\cw{\}}
16ea3abe 829
830\dd If this is set to a number greater than 0, then section headings
831\e{higher} than the given depth will not be displayed. If it is set
832to zero, all section headings will be displayed as normal.
833
834\lcont{
835
836The point of this is so that you can use the same Halibut input file
837to generate a quick-reference \cw{man} page for a program, \e{and} to
838include that \cw{man} page as an appendix in your program's full manual.
839If you are to include the \cw{man} page as an appendix, then the internal
840headings within the page will probably need to be at \c{\\H} or
841\c{\\S} level; therefore, when you format that input file on its own
842to create the \cw{man} page itself, you will need to have defined a
843\c{\\C} and possibly a \c{\\H} heading beforehand, which you don't
844want to see displayed.
845
846Here's an example. You might have a file \c{appendix.but}, which
847simply says
848
849\c \A{manpages} \cw{man} pages for the Foo tool suite
850\c
851\c \cfg{man-mindepth}{2}
852
853Then you have a file \c{make-foo.but}, and probably others like it
854as well, each of which looks something like this:
855
fc8e7adb 856\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred
857\c Bloggs}
16ea3abe 858\c
859\c \H{man-foo} \cw{man} page for \c{make-foo}
860\c
861\c \S{man-foo-name} NAME
862\c
863\c \c{make-foo} - create Foo files for the Foo tool suite
864\c
865\c \S{man-foo-synopsis} SYNOPSIS
866\c
867\c ... and so on ...
868\e iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
869
870So when you're generating your main manual, you can include
871\c{appendix.but} followed by \c{make-foo.but} and any other \cw{man}
872pages you have, and your \cw{man} pages will be formatted neatly as
873part of an appendix. Then, in a separate run of Halibut, you can
874just do
875
876\c halibut appendix.but make-foo.but
877
878and this will generate a \cw{man} page \c{output.1}, in which the
879headings \q{\cw{man} pages for the Foo tool suite} and \q{\cw{man}
880page for \c{make-foo}} will not be displayed because of the
881\c{man-mindepth} directive. So the first visible heading in the
882output \cw{man} page will be \q{NAME}, exactly as a user would
883expect.
884
885}
886
6b4dfd74 887\S{output-man-characters} Configuring the characters used
888
6069815a 889\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-charset\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-charset\}\{}\e{character set}\cw{\}}
890
891\dd Specifies what character set the output should be in, similarly to
6b4dfd74 892\cw{\\cfg\{text-charset\}} (see \k{output-text-characters}).
6069815a 893
894\# FIXME: you're probably on your own in making sure that it's
895sensible to output man pages in that charset.
896
897\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-bullet\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-bullet\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}...]
898
899\dd Specifies the text to use as the \i{bullet} in bulletted lists.
900You can specify multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
901\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}} directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
902
903\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-quotes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-quotes\}\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}...\cw{\}}]
904
905\dd Specifies the quotation marks to use, overriding any
906\cw{\\cfg\{quotes\}} directive. You can specify multiple
907fallback options. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}}
908directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
909
6b4dfd74 910\S{output-man-defaults} Default settings
911
339cbe09 912The \i{default settings} for the \cw{man} page output format are:
16ea3abe 913
0a6347b4 914\c \cfg{man-filename}{output.1}
6b4dfd74 915\c
16ea3abe 916\c \cfg{man-identity}{}
6b4dfd74 917\c
16ea3abe 918\c \cfg{man-headnumbers}{false}
919\c \cfg{man-mindepth}{0}
6b4dfd74 920\c
6069815a 921\c \cfg{man-charset}{ASCII}
922\c \cfg{man-bullet}{\u2022}{o}
923\c \cfg{man-quotes}{\u2018}{\u2019}{"}{"}
43f61c25 924
925\H{output-info} GNU \c{info}
926
927This output format generates files which can be used with the \i{GNU
928\c{info}} program.
929
930There are typically multiple output files: a primary file whose name
931usually ends in \c{.info}, and one or more subsidiary files whose
932names have numbers on the end, so that they end in \c{.info-1},
933\c{.info-2} and so on. Alternatively, this output format can be
934configured to output a single large file containing the whole
935document.
936
937The \c{info} output format supports the following configuration
938directives:
939
6b4dfd74 940\S{output-info-file} Controlling the output filenames
941
43f61c25 942\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
943
944\dd Sets the output file name in which to store the \c{info} file.
945This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
946parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--info} (see
947\k{running-options}).
948
949\lcont{
950
951The suffixes \c{-1}, \c{-2}, \c{-3} and so on will be appended to
952your output file name to produce any subsidiary files required.
953
954Note that \c{info} files refer to their own names internally, so
955these files cannot be \I{renaming \c{info} files}renamed after
956creation and remain useful.
957
958}
959
6b4dfd74 960\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-max-file-size\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-max-file-size\}\{}\e{bytes}\cw{\}}
961
962\dd Sets the preferred \i{maximum file size} for each subsidiary
963file. As a special case, if you set this to zero, there will be no
964subsidiary files and the whole document will be placed in a single
965self-contained output file. (However, note that this file can still
966not be renamed usefully.)
967
968\lcont{
969
970The preferred maximum file size is only a guideline. Halibut may be
971forced to exceed it if a single section of the document is larger
972than the maximum size (since individual \c{info} nodes may not be
973split between files).
974
975}
976
977\S{output-info-dimensions} Indentation and line width
978
5b1d0032 979\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-width\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-width\}\{}\e{width}\cw{\}}
980
981\dd Sets the \I{text width}width of the main part of the document,
982in characters. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-width\}}
983directive (see \k{output-text-dimensions}).
984
985\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-indent-code\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-indent-code\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
986
987\dd Specifies the extra indentation for \I{code paragraphs,
988indentation} code paragraphs. Works exactly like the
989\cw{\\cfg\{text-indent-code\}} directive (see
990\k{output-text-dimensions}).
991
992\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-index-width\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-index-width\}\{}\e{width}\cw{\}}
993
994\dd Specifies how much horizontal space to leave in the index node
995for the text of \i{index terms}, before displaying the sections the
996terms occur in.
997
998\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-list-indent\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-list-indent\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
999
1000\dd Specifies the extra indentation before the bullet or number in a
1001\I{bulletted list, indentation}\I{numbered list, indentation}list
1002item. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-list-indent\}}
1003directive (see \k{output-text-dimensions}).
1004
1005\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-listitem-indent\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-listitem-indent\}\{}\e{indent}\cw{\}}
1006
1007\dd Specifies the additional indentation before the body of a list
1008item. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-listitem-indent\}}
1009directive (see \k{output-text-dimensions}).
1010
6b4dfd74 1011\S{output-info-headings} Configuring heading display
6069815a 1012
5b1d0032 1013\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-section-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-section-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
1014
1015\dd Specifies the suffix text to be appended to each section number
1016before displaying the section title. For example, if you set this to
1017\q{\cw{:\_}}, then a typical section title might look something like
1018\q{Section 3.1: Something Like This}.
1019
1020\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-underline\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-underline\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}...]
1021
1022\dd Specifies the text to be used to underline section titles. Works
1023very much like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-chapter-underline\}} directive
1024(see \k{output-text-headings}). You can specify more than one
1025option, and Halibut will choose the first one supported by the
1026character set.
1027
6b4dfd74 1028\S{output-info-characters} Controlling the characters used
1029
1030\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-charset\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-charset\}\{}\e{character set}\cw{\}}
1031
1032\dd Specifies what character set the output should be in, similarly to
1033\cw{\\cfg\{text-charset\}} (see \k{output-text-characters}).
1034
1035\# FIXME: if you try sufficiently hard, you can probably find an
1036output encoding that will break the info format by trampling on its
1037special characters. So either don't do that, or tell us what we should
1038do about it.
1039
5b1d0032 1040\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-bullet\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-bullet\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}...]
1041
1042\dd Specifies the text to use as the \i{bullet} in bulletted lists.
1043You can specify multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
1044\cw{\\cfg\{text-bullet\}} directive (see
1045\k{output-text-characters}).
1046
1047\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-rule\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-rule\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}...]
1048
1049\dd Specifies the text used to draw \i{horizontal rules}. You can
1050specify multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
1051\cw{\\cfg\{text-rule\}} directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
1052
1053\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-quotes\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-quotes\}\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{open-quote}\cw{\}\{}\e{close-quote}...\cw{\}}]
1054
6069815a 1055\dd Specifies the quotation marks to use, overriding any
1056\cw{\\cfg\{quotes\}} directive. You can specify multiple
5b1d0032 1057fallback options. Works exactly like the \cw{\\cfg\{text-quotes\}}
1058directive (see \k{output-text-characters}).
1059
1060\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-emphasis\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-emphasis\}\{}\e{start-emph}\cw{\}\{}\e{end-emph}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{start-emph}\cw{\}\{}\e{end-emph}...\cw{\}}]
1061
1062\dd Specifies how to display emphasised text. You can specify
1063multiple fallback options. Works exactly like the
1064\cw{\\cfg\{text-emphasis\}} directive (see
1065\k{output-text-characters}).
1066
6b4dfd74 1067\S{output-info-misc} Miscellaneous configuration options
1068
5b1d0032 1069\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-list-suffix\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-list-suffix\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}}
1070
1071\dd Specifies the text to append to the item numbers in a
1072\i{numbered list}. Works exactly like the
1073\cw{\\cfg\{text-list-suffix\}} directive (see
1074\k{output-text-misc}).
1075
43f61c25 1076\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}\{}\e{section}\cw{\}\{}\e{short
1077name}\cw{\}\{}\e{long name}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{keyword}\cw{\}}]
1078
1079\dd Constructs an \i\cw{INFO-DIR-ENTRY} section and places it in the
1080header of the Info file. This mechanism is used to automatically
1081generate the \i{\c{dir} file} at the root of a Unix system's
1082\c{info} collection.
1083
1084\lcont{
1085
1086The parameters to this directive are:
1087
1088\dt \e{section}
1089
1090\dd Specifies the section of the \c{dir} file in which you want your
1091document referenced. For example, \q{Development}, or \q{Games}, or
1092\q{Miscellaneous}.
1093
1094\dt \e{short name}
1095
1096\dd Specifies a short name for the directory entry, which will
1097appear at the start of the menu line.
1098
1099\dt \e{long name}
1100
1101\dd Specifies a long name for the directory entry, which will appear
1102at the end of the menu line.
1103
1104\dt \e{keyword}
1105
1106\dd This parameter is optional. If it is present, then the directory
1107entry will cause a jump to a particular subsection of your document,
1108rather than starting at the top. The subsection will be the one
1109referred to by the given keyword (see \k{input-sections} for details
1110about assigning keywords to document sections).
1111
1112For example, in a document describing many game programs, the
1113configuration directive
1114
fc8e7adb 1115\c \cfg{info-dir-entry}{Games}{Chess}{Electronic chess
1116\c game}{chess}
43f61c25 1117
1118might produce text in the \c{dir} file looking something like this:
1119
1120\c Games
1121\c * Chess: (mygames)Chapter 3. Electronic chess game
1122
1123if the output file were called \c{mygames.info} and the keyword
1124\c{chess} had been used to define Chapter 3 of the document.
1125
1126}
0287083a 1127
6b4dfd74 1128\S{output-info-defaults} Default settings
1129
5b1d0032 1130The \i{default settings} for the \c{info} output format are:
1131
1132\c \cfg{info-filename}{output.info}
6b4dfd74 1133\c \cfg{info-max-file-size}{65536}
5b1d0032 1134\c
1135\c \cfg{info-width}{70}
1136\c \cfg{info-indent-code}{2}
1137\c \cfg{info-index-width}{40}
1138\c \cfg{info-list-indent}{1}
1139\c \cfg{info-listitem-indent}{3}
6b4dfd74 1140zc
5b1d0032 1141\c \cfg{info-section-suffix}{: }
5b1d0032 1142\c \cfg{info-underline}{\u203e}{-}
6b4dfd74 1143\c
1144\c \cfg{info-charset}{ASCII}
5b1d0032 1145\c \cfg{info-bullet}{\u2022}{-}
1146\c \cfg{info-rule}{\u2500}{-}
1147\c \cfg{info-quotes}{\u2018}{\u2019}{`}{'}
1148\c \cfg{info-emphasis}{_}{_}
1149\c
1150\c \cfg{info-list-suffix}{.}
5b1d0032 1151
1152and no \cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}} directives.
1153
0287083a 1154\H{output-ps} \i{PostScript}
1155
1156This output format generates a printable manual in PostScript format.
1157
1158This format is currently very new and is not yet configurable. There
1159is only one available configuration option:
1160
1161\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
1162
1163\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PostScript
1164file. This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file
1165name parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--ps} (see
1166\k{running-options}).
1167
1168The \i{default settings} for the PostScript output format are:
1169
1170\c \cfg{ps-filename}{output.ps}
1171
1172\H{output-pdf} \i{PDF}
1173
1174This output format generates a printable manual in PDF format. This
1175should look exactly identical to the PostScript output (see
1176\k{output-ps}), but also uses some PDF interactive features to
1177provide an outline of all the document's sections and clickable
1178cross-references between sections.
1179
1180This format is currently very new and is not yet configurable. There
1181is only one available configuration option:
1182
1183\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{pdf-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{pdf-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
1184
1185\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PDF file.
1186This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
1187parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--pdf} (see
1188\k{running-options}).
1189
1190The \i{default settings} for the PDF output format are:
1191
1192\c \cfg{pdf-filename}{output.pdf}