Hi,
I'm using Texinfo for my personal blog, using texi2any to do the heavy lifting (check https://interlaye.red/Texiblog.html for the idea behind it and a link to the repository). I've noticed some changes and improvements in texi2any since 7.0.3, which "forced" me to fix some things on my side (the @menu format used to be more lenient in accepting an initial space, now it's stricter), but more importantly allowed me to take advantage of new features (the new syntax highlighting support is great). That led me to this email, since perhaps some of the steps I do (through pre- and post-processing) could possibly be enhancements for the future. ** Automatic creation of "extended" menus. I am not using `FORMAT_MENU="sectiontoc"` because it doesn't allow me to add a descriptive sentence at the end. I use this in several places: 1. The main page has a menu under "Home" in which each section gets a small description. I maintain this manually, pointing to files. 2. The "Posts" page is an automatically created posts.texi file (using M4) that includes something like: ``` @menu * My latest article. 2024-02-24 * Another one about this. 2024-02-10 @end menu @include posts/latest.texi @include posts/another.texi ``` ... which adds the date after the title (fundamental for my purpose). I get the date from the @date field (a macro) in my individual posts. This works, but perhaps it would be possible to combine the automatic menu generation (from FORMAT_MENU="sectiontoc") with the "extended" format, thus eliminating this step? Perhaps by adding an additional option with what should be the content of the description field? == Adding a "Top" navigation entry For a web page I find it useful to be able to easily go to the homepage. I'm manually changing the HTML to add a "Top" navigation entry that points to the index page. I experimented with several options but didn't get this effect. Is something like this possible, and if not, would it be a useful addition? == Support for image URLs I use @image for the images, and this requires a local file. I can work around this either by having the file, or doing some pre-processing, but it would be easier to support image URLs. I understand that this is something that is not simple since it wouldn't work in non HTML modes, so I get why it is like it is. Neither of these are really needed, and I can keep doing my own changes around it, but perhaps one of them is useful for someone else. I also completely recognise that using Texinfo for a personal blog is not the main use-case of it and as such these enhancements are a bit fringe. Best regards, and thank you for all the work in Texinfo and texi2any, Frederico
