[tex4ht] [bug #277] make timestamps in HTML output optional

2016-03-31 Thread Karl Berry 
Update of bug #277 (project tex4ht):

 Open/Closed:Open => Closed 

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Follow-up Comment #5:

thanks.  i found several more uses of :today, and either configured them
similarly (off by default, timestamp option to enable) or just deleted them
(css files, a couple others where the code wasn't following the same pattern.
installed in tex4ht (r164) and tl (r40194).

the massive code duplication throughout the sources continues to be a big
headache.  sigh.


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[tex4ht] [bug #277] make timestamps in HTML output optional

2016-03-29 Thread Karl Berry 
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #277 (project tex4ht):

thanks for the report (Erik) and patch (Michal).
 
unless someone objects, i actually think it would be better to remove
timestamps by default and let enabling them be the option. those gratuitious
changes in the output have always been a hassle.
wdyt?



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[tex4ht] [bug #277] make timestamps in HTML output optional

2016-03-29 Thread Erik Brangs 
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #277 (project tex4ht):

Thanks.

Disabling the timestamp only on request is fine for my use case.

I suppose Debian could always carry a custom patch if they'd rather not have
timestamps by default.

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[tex4ht] [bug #277] make timestamps in HTML output optional

2016-03-29 Thread Michal Hoftich 
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #277 (project tex4ht):

I think that it is better to introduce option to disable the timestamp if it
isn't needed, rather than to disable it by default. I've added `notimestamp`
option to tex4ht-html4.tex, the patch is attached.

(file #232)
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[tex4ht] [bug #277] make timestamps in HTML output optional

2016-03-29 Thread Erik Brangs 
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 Summary: make timestamps in HTML output optional
 Project: tex4ht
Submitted by: ebrangs
Submitted on: Tue 29 Mar 2016 03:11:58 PM EEST
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 1 - Wish
  Status: None
 Privacy: Public
 Assigned to: None
Originator Email: 
 Open/Closed: Open
 Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Currently, tex4ht always outputs meta tags that contain the date. Please
consider introducing an option to control this behaviour. There's a patch (
debdiff.txt ) for the Debian package of tex4ht at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789843 that could possibly
be adapted to implement this. The patch likely wasn't forwarded to you because
the Debian package currently has no Debian maintainer.

A potential use case for the control of date in meta tags is the update of
HTML files that are kept in a version control repository. If all HTML files
are always generated at once (even for source files that didn't change), the
new HTML files will differ from the old ones only in the date. This leads to
diffs that mostly contain noise (i.e. the changed dates). That makes the real
changes harder to spot.




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