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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote: > OK, thinking about this a little more, perhaps it's Star2HTML that is now > mis-configured. > > The underlying assumption about what it does is that it's better to rely > on local documents and if you want to go off site, you'd better have made > that clear (which is why hlink is essential at some stage after creating > the document). > > Perhaps we should change Star2HTML so that all newly created documents all > point their cross-references to the RAL document set instead, and then you > run hlink when you (to quote Norman) have a HTX clue and prefer to use the > local documents when they are available. In which case hlink becomes a > non-essential post-install task, assuming you have good network access > (that wasn't the case when Star2HTML and HTX were conceived). > > Under this scheme hlinking is a specialist AST job, as it has two > documents that want to refer to each other locally. I've modified Star2HTML so that all Starlink documentation cross referencing defaults to be against the RAL central repository. This means that the above is now the right way to deal with hlink. So any packages that require htx will need to declare this as a dependency, and we should plan to run hlink once at the end of "make world" (only when documents are being generated, naturally). Peter.