Besides generating output in the Info format, you can use the
--html option to generate output in HTML format, for installation
on a web site (for example). By default, the HTML output is split at
node level.
When splitting, the HTML output files are written into a subdirectory.
The subdirectory is named according to the name from
@setfilename with any extension removed; for example, HTML
output for @setfilename emacs.info would be written into a
subdirectory named emacs. If that directory cannot be created
for any reason, then .html is appended to the directory name, as
in emacs.html (this is necessary because sometimes the info file
is named without an extension, e.g., texinfo). If the
name.html directory can't be created either,
makeinfo gives up. In any case, the top-level output file within
the directory is always named index.html.
Monolithic output (--no-split) is named according to
@setfilename or --outfile. Cross-document node
references are not supported in monolithic HTML.
Texinfo input marked up with the @ifhtml command will produce
output only with the --html option supplied. Input marked up
with the @html is passed literally to the output (suppressing
the normal escaping of input <, > and & characters
which have special significance in HTML). Similarly for the
--xml option and @ifxml and @xml sections.
The --footnote-style option is currently ignored for HTML output;
footnotes are linked to the end of the output file.
The HTML generated is mostly standard (i.e., HTML 2.0, RFC-1866). The
exception is that HTML 3.2 tables are generated from the
@multitable command, but tagged to degrade as well as possible
in browsers without table support. The HTML 4 lang attribute on
the <html> attribute is also used. Please report output from an
error-free run of makeinfo which has browser portability problems
as a bug.
Navigation bars are inserted at the start of nodes, similarly to Info
output. The --no-headers option will suppress this if used with
--no-split. Header <link> elements in split output can
support info-like navigation with browsers like Lynx and Emacs W3
which implement this HTML 1.0 feature. @xref commands to
other documents are generated assuming the other document is available
in split HTML form, and installed in the same HTML documentation tree,
at ../<info-document>/.