Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting man page references to links

[Nik Clayton <nik at nothing-going-on dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:24:43PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
> | Ideally, I'd envisage something whereby you'd do something like
> | 
> |    (define $mancgi-template$ "http://www.FreeBSD.org/man.cgi?%s(%d)")
> 
> There are functions in dblib.dsl for doing this sort of substitution.
> (I mean at the lowest level, substitute "x" for "%y".) That's how the
> localization does its job.

OK, I'll try looking at that.

Something I have been looking for is a way to tell whether or not we're
currently inside a certain element in the HTML output stream.

Specifically, suppose you've used <citerefentry> in a section title, which
has then appeared in the set of ToC links.  When that happens you have two
nested <a> elements (one for the ToC link, and inside it a link to the manpage
CGI).  Is there a way I can query the (make element ...) output stream, or do
I need to keep track of this in a global variable, and make sure that every
time I do a (make element gi: "a" ... ) that the variable's value is set
correctly?

N
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