* doc/coreutils.texi (optAnchor): A new macro that we can
call at each option description to output an anchor.
* doc/local.mk (html-local): Post-process the texinfo generated HTML
(`make html`) to remove our "-option" tag, and replace all
escaped _002d with a standard hyphen, which is fine in URLs.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++++
doc/local.mk | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 098fa4761..8baf93357 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -568,6 +568,10 @@ manuals for textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils to produce
the present
omnibus manual. Richard Stallman contributed his usual invaluable
insights to the overall process.
+@macro optAnchor{command,option}
+@anchor{\command\-option\option\}
+@end macro
+
@node Common options
@chapter Common options
diff --git a/doc/local.mk b/doc/local.mk
index 3a46e0820..da5d21240 100644
--- a/doc/local.mk
+++ b/doc/local.mk
@@ -131,3 +131,13 @@ sc-lower-case-var:
$(PERL) -lne $(find_upper_case_var) $(texi_files)
check-local: check-texinfo
+
+# Post-process generated HTML to clean up anchor IDs
+_sed_anchor_cleanup = \
+ -e '/id=.*_002doption/ { s/id="\([^"]*\)_002doption/id="\1/g; s/_002d/-/g; }'
+html-local:
+ $(AM_V_GEN)htmlfile=$(info_TEXINFOS:.texi=.html); \
+ sed $(_sed_anchor_cleanup) $$htmlfile > $$htmlfile-t \
+ && mv $$htmlfile-t $$htmlfile
+
+.PHONY: html-local
--
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