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24.1 HTML Translation
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'makeinfo' will include segments of Texinfo source between '@ifhtml' and
'@end ifhtml' in the HTML output (but not any of the other conditionals,
by default).  Source between '@html' and '@end html' is passed without
change to the output (i.e., suppressing the normal escaping of input
'<', '>' and '&' characters which have special significance in HTML).
Note: Conditional Commands.

  By default, a navigation bar is inserted at the start of each node,
analogous to Info output.  If the '--no-headers' option is used, the
navigation bar is only inserted at the beginning of split files.  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.

  In HTML, when the footnote style is 'end', or if the output is not
split, footnotes are put at the end of the output.  If set to
'separate', and the output is split, they are placed in a separate file.
Note: Footnote Styles.

  The HTML generated is standard HTML 4.  It also tries to be as
compatible as possible with earlier standards (e.g., HTML 2.0,
RFC-1866).  Some minor exceptions: 1) HTML 3.2 tables are generated for
the '@multitable' command (Note: Multi-column Tables), but they should
degrade reasonably in browsers without table support; 2) The HTML 4
'lang' attribute on the '<html>' attribute is used; 3)  Entities that
are not in the HTML 3.2 standard are also used.  4)  CSS is used (Note:
HTML CSS).  5)  A few HTML 4 elements are used ('thead', 'abbr',
'acronym').

  Using '--init-file=html32.pm' produces strict HTML 3.2 output (Note:
Invoking texi2any).

  Please report output from an error-free run of 'makeinfo' which has
browser portability problems as a bug (Note: Reporting Bugs).
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