NAME¶
gather_stx_titles - gather title declarations from Stx documents
SYNOPSIS¶
gather_stx_titles [ -f
from-suffix ] [ -t
to-suffix ] [
m4
options ]
file [
file ... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
gather_stx_titles digs out Stx metadata declarations from the listed
files, and dumps the title and document ID information as m4
definitions into standard output. This information can later be used by
w_crosslink to link the documents by their metadata.
Why is this useful? Well, imagine that you have a large site with a lot of
cross-linking. A document's name will appear in many places: in the link menu
(if you have one), and in the body of different pages where it is cross-linked
from. gather_stx_titles lets you put all the information in one place and
where it belongs, i.e. the file itself. You'll be glad if you did, when the
time comes to change document titles or move the documents around; especially
so if your website has multilingual magic.
OPTIONS¶
gather_stx_titles uses m4 internally and will accept any option m4 accepts. In
addition to those, it takes the following options:
- -f from-suffix
- In the filename data, substitute away the suffix
from-suffix. Actually, from_suffix may be a regular
expression; stupid but true, in GNU m4 it is a “traditional”
regexp, whereas in BSD m4 it is an “extended” regexp. Default
to no suffix (nothing to take away).
- -t to-suffix
- In the filename data, substitute the suffix taken away by
from-suffix with to-suffix. If from-suffix is nil
(the default), append to-suffix to all filenames.
- -p prefix
- Strip away the prefix given by (regular expression)
prefix from filenames. The equivalent of -t for this does not
exist, because you can specify a directory prefix to w_crosslink by
w_base.
- --version, -V
- Just show version information and exit.
- --help, -?
- Just show a short help message and exit.
EXAMPLES¶
I guess most of the time you will want to automate the use of gather_stx_titles,
for example with a Makefile like this:
SOURCES = $(wildcard *.stx)
TARGETS = $(SOURCES:.stx=.html)
all: $(TARGETS)
titles.m4: $(SOURCES)
gather_stx_titles -f stx -t html $^ > $@
%.html: %.stx titles.m4
stx2any -T html titles.m4 $< > $@
If you don't want to be quite so correct, drop the .html dependency on titles.m4
or titles.m4 dependency on SOURCES. Using temporary files is not necessary:
this should also work:
$ gather_stx_titles *.stx | stx2any - mydoc.stx
SEE ALSO¶
stx2any (1).
AUTHOR¶
This page is written by Panu A. Kalliokoski.