\H{output-text} Plain text
This output format generates the document as a single \i{plain text}
-file, under the name \i\c{output.txt}.
+file.
The output file is currently assumed to be in the \i{ISO 8859-1}
character set. Any Unicode characters representable in this set will
variety of configuration directives. They are listed in the
following subsections.
+\S{output-text-file} Output file name
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{text-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{text-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the text file.
+This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--text} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
\S{output-text-dimensions} Indentation and line width
This section describes the configuration directives which control
The \i{default settings} for Halibut's plain text output format are:
+\c \cfg{text-filename}{output.txt}
+\c
\c \cfg{text-width}{68}
\c \cfg{text-indent}{7}
\c \cfg{text-indent-code}{2}
and/or subsection. You can configure precisely how the text is split
between HTML files using the configuration commands described in
this section. In particular, you can configure Halibut to output one
-single HTML file instead of multiple ones, in which case it will be
-called \c{Manual.html} (but you can rename it easily enough).
+single HTML file instead of multiple ones.
Strictly speaking, the output format is \i{XHTML} 1.0 Transitional,
which is why all of the configuration directives start with the word
\c{xhtml} rather than \c{html}.
+\S{output-html-file} Controlling the output file names
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the top-level
+contents page. Since this is the first page a user ought to see when
+beginning to read the document, a good choice in many cases might be
+\c{index.html} (although this is not the default, for historical
+reasons).
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-index-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-index-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the file name in which to store the document's index.
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}\{}\e{template}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Provides a \i{template} to be used when constructing the file
+names of each chapter or section of the document. This template
+should contain at least one \i\e{formatting command}, in the form of
+a per cent sign followed by a letter. (If you need a literal per
+cent sign, you can write \c{%%}.)
+
+\lcont{
+
+The formatting commands used in this template are:
+
+\dt \i\c{%N}
+
+\dd Expands to the visible title of the section, with white space
+removed. So in a chapter declared as \q{\cw{\\C\{fish\} Catching
+Fish}}, this formatting command would expand to
+\q{\cw{CatchingFish}}.
+
+\dt \i\c{%n}
+
+\dd Expands to the type and number of the section, without white
+space. So in chapter 1 this would expand to \q{\cw{Chapter1}}; in
+section A.4.3 it would expand to \q{\cw{SectionA.4.3}}, and so on.
+If the section has no number (an unnumbered chapter created using
+\c{\\U}), this directive falls back to doing the same thing as
+\c{%N}.
+
+\dt \i\c{%b}
+
+\dd Expands to the bare number of the section. So in chapter 1 this
+would expand to \q{\cw{1}}; in section A.4.3 it would expand to
+\q{\cw{A.4.3}}, and so on. If the section has no number (an
+unnumbered chapter created using \c{\\U}), this directive falls back
+to doing the same thing as \c{%N}.
+
+\dt \i\c{%k}
+
+\dd Expands to the internal keyword specified in the section title.
+So in a chapter declared as \q{\cw{\\C\{fish\} Catching Fish}}, this
+formatting command would expand to \q{\cw{fish}}. If the section has
+no keyword (an unnumbered chapter created using \c{\\U}), this
+directive falls back to doing the same thing as \c{%N}.
+
+These formatting directives can also be used in the
+\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}} configuration directive (see
+\k{output-html-misc}).
+
+}
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-single-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-single-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the file name in which to store the entire document, if
+Halibut is configured (using \c{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}\{0\}} to
+produce a single self-contained file. Both this directive \e{and}
+\c{\\cfg\{xhtml-leaf-level\}\{0\}} are implicitly generated if you
+provide a file name parameter after the command-line option
+\i\c{--html} (see \k{running-options}).
+
\S{output-html-split} Controlling the splitting into HTML files
By default, the HTML output from Halibut is split into multiple
in a single file. If you do this, Halibut will call that file
\i\c{Manual.html} instead of \i\c{Contents.html}.
+This option is automatically set to zero if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--html} (see
+\k{running-options}), because you have specified a single file name
+and so Halibut assumes you want the whole document to be placed in
+that file.
+
}
\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-depth\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-contents-depth-}\e{level}\cw{\}\{}\e{depth}\cw{\}}
\S{output-html-misc} Miscellaneous options
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-fragment\}\{}\e{template}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd This directive lets you specify a \i{template}, with exactly the
+same syntax used in \cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-template-filename\}} (see
+\k{output-html-file}), to be used for the anchor names (\i\cw{<A
+NAME="...">}) used to allow URLs to refer to specific sections
+within a particular HTML file. So if you set this to \q{\cw{%k}},
+for example, then each individual section in your document will be
+addressable by means of a URL ending in a \c{#} followed by your
+internal section keyword.
+
\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-versionid\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{xhtml-versionid\}\{}\e{boolean}\cw{\}}
\dd If this is set to \c{true}, \i{version ID paragraphs} (defined using
The \i{default settings} for Halibut's HTML output format are:
+\c \cfg{xhtml-contents-filename}{Contents.html}
+\c \cfg{xhtml-index-filename}{IndexPage.html}
+\c \cfg{xhtml-template-filename}{%n.html}
+\c \cfg{xhtml-single-filename}{Manual.html}
+\c \cfg{xhtml-template-fragment}{%b}
+\c
\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-level}{2}
\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-contains-contents}{false}
\c \cfg{xhtml-leaf-smallest-contents}{4}
\H{output-whlp} Windows Help
This output format generates data that can be used by the \i{Windows
-Help} program \cw{WINHELP.EXE}. There are two actual files generated,
-called \c{output.hlp} and \c{output.cnt}. (You can rename them both
-with no problems; they don't depend on keeping those filenames. You
-just have to make sure that the two names are related in this way,
-so that \c{.hlp} on the end of one name is replaced by \c{.cnt} on
-the end of the other.)
-
-The Windows Help output format is currently not configurable at all;
-all formatting decisions are fixed. However, there is one
-configuration directive you can use, which is not so much
-\e{configuration} as extra functionality:
+Help} program \cw{WINHELP.EXE}. There are two actual files
+generated, one ending in \c{.hlp} and the other ending in \c{.cnt}.
+
+The Windows Help output format supports the following configuration
+directives:
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the man page.
+This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--winhelp} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
+\lcont{
+
+Your output file name should end with \c{.hlp}; if it doesn't,
+Halibut will append it. Halibut will also generate a contents file
+(ending in \c{.cnt}) alongside the file name you specify.
+
+}
\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}\{}\e{topic-name}\cw{\}}
}
+The \i{default settings} for the Windows Help output format are:
+
+\c \cfg{winhelp-filename}{output.hlp}
+
+and no \c{\\cfg\{winhelp-topic\}} directives anywhere.
+
\H{output-man} Unix \cw{man} pages
This output format generates a Unix \i{\cw{man} page}. That is to say,
The available configuration options for this format are as follows:
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the man page.
+This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--man} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{man-identity\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{man-identity\}\{}\e{text}\cw{\}\{}\e{text...}\cw{\}}
\dd This directive is used to generate the initial \i{\c{.TH}
For example, a typical \cw{man} page might contain
-\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred Bloggs}
+\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred
+\c Bloggs}
}
Then you have a file \c{make-foo.but}, and probably others like it
as well, each of which looks something like this:
-\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred Bloggs}
+\c \cfg{man-identity}{make-foo}{1}{June 2003}{foo-utils}{Fred
+\c Bloggs}
\c
\c \H{man-foo} \cw{man} page for \c{make-foo}
\c
The \i{default settings} for the \cw{man} page output format are:
+\c \cfg{man-filename}{output.1}
\c \cfg{man-identity}{}
\c \cfg{man-headnumbers}{false}
\c \cfg{man-mindepth}{0}
+
+\H{output-info} GNU \c{info}
+
+This output format generates files which can be used with the \i{GNU
+\c{info}} program.
+
+There are typically multiple output files: a primary file whose name
+usually ends in \c{.info}, and one or more subsidiary files whose
+names have numbers on the end, so that they end in \c{.info-1},
+\c{.info-2} and so on. Alternatively, this output format can be
+configured to output a single large file containing the whole
+document.
+
+The \c{info} output format supports the following configuration
+directives:
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the output file name in which to store the \c{info} file.
+This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--info} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
+\lcont{
+
+The suffixes \c{-1}, \c{-2}, \c{-3} and so on will be appended to
+your output file name to produce any subsidiary files required.
+
+Note that \c{info} files refer to their own names internally, so
+these files cannot be \I{renaming \c{info} files}renamed after
+creation and remain useful.
+
+}
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-max-file-size\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-max-file-size\}\{}\e{bytes}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the preferred \i{maximum file size} for each subsidiary
+file. As a special case, if you set this to zero, there will be no
+subsidiary files and the whole document will be placed in a single
+self-contained output file. (However, note that this file can still
+not be renamed usefully.)
+
+\lcont{
+
+The preferred maximum file size is only a guideline. Halibut may be
+forced to exceed it if a single section of the document is larger
+than the maximum size (since individual \c{info} nodes may not be
+split between files).
+
+}
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}\{}\e{section}\cw{\}\{}\e{short
+name}\cw{\}\{}\e{long name}\cw{\}}[\cw{\{}\e{keyword}\cw{\}}]
+
+\dd Constructs an \i\cw{INFO-DIR-ENTRY} section and places it in the
+header of the Info file. This mechanism is used to automatically
+generate the \i{\c{dir} file} at the root of a Unix system's
+\c{info} collection.
+
+\lcont{
+
+The parameters to this directive are:
+
+\dt \e{section}
+
+\dd Specifies the section of the \c{dir} file in which you want your
+document referenced. For example, \q{Development}, or \q{Games}, or
+\q{Miscellaneous}.
+
+\dt \e{short name}
+
+\dd Specifies a short name for the directory entry, which will
+appear at the start of the menu line.
+
+\dt \e{long name}
+
+\dd Specifies a long name for the directory entry, which will appear
+at the end of the menu line.
+
+\dt \e{keyword}
+
+\dd This parameter is optional. If it is present, then the directory
+entry will cause a jump to a particular subsection of your document,
+rather than starting at the top. The subsection will be the one
+referred to by the given keyword (see \k{input-sections} for details
+about assigning keywords to document sections).
+
+For example, in a document describing many game programs, the
+configuration directive
+
+\c \cfg{info-dir-entry}{Games}{Chess}{Electronic chess
+\c game}{chess}
+
+might produce text in the \c{dir} file looking something like this:
+
+\c Games
+\c * Chess: (mygames)Chapter 3. Electronic chess game
+
+if the output file were called \c{mygames.info} and the keyword
+\c{chess} had been used to define Chapter 3 of the document.
+
+}
+
+\H{output-ps} \i{PostScript}
+
+This output format generates a printable manual in PostScript format.
+
+This format is currently very new and is not yet configurable. There
+is only one available configuration option:
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PostScript
+file. This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file
+name parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--ps} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
+The \i{default settings} for the PostScript output format are:
+
+\c \cfg{ps-filename}{output.ps}
+
+\H{output-pdf} \i{PDF}
+
+This output format generates a printable manual in PDF format. This
+should look exactly identical to the PostScript output (see
+\k{output-ps}), but also uses some PDF interactive features to
+provide an outline of all the document's sections and clickable
+cross-references between sections.
+
+This format is currently very new and is not yet configurable. There
+is only one available configuration option:
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{pdf-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{pdf-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PDF file.
+This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file name
+parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--pdf} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
+The \i{default settings} for the PDF output format are:
+
+\c \cfg{pdf-filename}{output.pdf}
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