-[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render [Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
+[[I|tschwinge]] started writing a plugin to render
+[GNU Texinfo](http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
inside the ikiwiki environment.
+This plugin is not neccessarily meant to enable people to write arbitrary
+wiki pages in the Texinfo format (even though that is possible, of course),
+but rather to ease collaboration on existing Texinfo documents.
+
The plugin is available at <http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/texinfo.pm>.
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`.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/#Top>
for an example.
-How to teach this to ikiwiki?
+How to teach this to ikiwiki? --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> As far as multiple input files, you'd need to use add_depends()
+> to let ikiwiki know that a change to any of those files should cause a
+> rebuild of the "main" file. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> (?) I'll see about a frob to get `makeinfo` provide me with a list of additional files
+>> it used for rendering a given `.texi` file. --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> I guess you'd also have to somehow deal with
+> it wanting to render pages for each of the helper files. Not quite sure
+> what the best way would be to avoid that. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Might it be an option to simply not render the pages that are already
+>> being used as an `include` file for another `.texi` file? --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> Ikiwiki is perfectly happy with a page creating other files (see eg, the
+> img and teximg plugins, as well as the inline plugin's rss generation).
+> The will_render() function supports that.
+>
+> What hasn't been done though is a page creating more than one other _page_.
+> Perhaps you could call IkiWiki::genpage by hand for each additional page.
+> You might also want to manipulate each data structure that tracks info about
+> pages, adding the additional pages to them, so that they're first class
+> pages that work as pages everywhere in ikiwiki (ie, can be inlined,
+> appear in a site map, be linked to, etc). Not sure how to do that,
+> and perhaps you could get away without doing it actually. --[[Joey]]
+
+
+## `makeinfo` Output
+
+`makeinfo --html` is being used for rendering. It creates stand-alone
+HTML files, while ikiwiki only needs the files' `<body>`s.
+
+(?) One possibility (which is what I'm doing at the moment) is to simply cut away
+everythin until `<body>` is seen and after `</body>` has been seen. --[[tschwinge]]
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