Bug#37515: texi2pdf: clicking bookmarks lands past spot wanted

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

reassign 37515 texinfo
thanks

karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Hi folks.  An old Debian bug report found its way to me a few days ago
> (thanks, Hille):
>
>     From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@odin.cc.pdx.edu>
>     Subject: tetex-bin: texi2pdf: clicking bookmarks lands past spot wanted
>     Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:56:46 -0700
>
>     I used `texi2pdf' to generate a pdf of a texinfo document, and found
>     that clicking on the bookmark (in the window at the left) lands me in
>     the document a little bit past the top of the section I clicked.
>     There must be a miscalculation of some kind where it generates the
>     target locations for those bookmarks.
>
[...]
> To fix this, I ended up rewriting most of the section-handling and
> toc-handling part of texinfo.tex, especially for pdf output.  I don't
> feel too bad about it, since the result has a lot less duplication
> (although much more remains to be done).
>
> Although I've tried the new code on a number of test and real documents,
> the changes are so large I thought I'd send it to everyone I thought
> might be interested before releasing it.  So it's attached.  And
> besides, I can't release it right now anyway, since ftp.gnu.org is still
> closed -- make a virtue of necessity. :)

This was in last August - still there is no new release on
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ (why, Karl?), but the file is available
at 

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/texinfo/texinfo.tex{,gz,bz2}

Please, texinfo maintainers, install this file. We have it in our
sources, but we don't install it -
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex is from the texinfo package. 

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie