Re: Bitmap images in info format

[email protected] (Karl Berry)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
    Makeinfo needs to find them at compile time, and the
    path needs to be correct after installation.  

Yes.

However, ending up with all the images in $(infodir) doesn't seem good
at all.  Aside from clutter, two different manuals could easily use the
same filenames.

Furthermore, if we start supporting translated manuals in a better way,
we'll presumably have $(infodir)/LL/foo.info, and of course it would be
nice if that used the same images.  I guess that's a different kettle of
fish, though.

Perhaps we should look for images in a directory, say `foo.d', for
foo.info, and if found, use <img src="foo.d/bar.png">?  At
makeinfo-time, this would be in a subdir of the current directory.  At
emacs-time, this would be in $(infodir).

Hmm, I guess the source could just say @image{foo.d/bar.png} in the
first place and no special support is needed.  I could put a
recommendation to that effect in the texinfo manual.
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