[debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#402122: HTML output should include LINK tags in HEAD

[Trent W. Buck]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:13:59AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> This bug "HTML output should include LINK tags in HEAD" is still
> present for maint-guide and all other documentation since
> debiandoc-sgml's default behavior has been kept so.
>
> But this program iself is capable to generae such tags.
>
> After #140677 was fixed in 1.1.60 in Sat, 6 Apr 2002, this feature
> have been disabled as default because adding such tag was ugly for
> console browsers such as "links".

I use the browser w3m-el, which is a text browser that uses the
"console" browser w3m as the back end.  It does not display LINK
metadata at the top of the page; instead it has the following effects:

- if I use <space> to scroll down, and I'm at the bottom of the page,
  it goes to the rel=next URL.

- if I use <backspace> to scroll up, and I'm at the top of the page,
  it goes to the rel=prev URL.

- if I use <u>, which normally goes from http://foo/bar/baz to
  http://foo/bar/, it instead goes to the rel=toc URL.

When using the html2ps browser, I can use these links to generate a
single printable document of a large document, without having to
specify the URL of every file individually.

These behaviours are enormously useful for reading large documents; if
lynx and links do "ugly" things with this metadata then I think you
should be complaining to the developers of those programs, not the
content providers (such as debiandoc-sgml).  Probably they should make
the "ugliness" an option.