[latexrefman] document home page link

[Hefferon, Jim S.]

>  I think you failed to see the footer in some nodes because your css made the new footer text overlap with the last line of node text.

Maybe we are not talking about the same thing?  This page has a footer.

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/latex2e/Command-line.html#Command-line

Its menu points to three pages.  The first has a footer while the second and third do not.

> So, all in all, I think the PRE_BODY_CLOSE text has to follow the
navigation line. Which is why I started looking into the "About" button.

Yes, that seems right to me. But I thought it looked funny there.  So, in addition to the About, I tried the variables with names like header and evenheader.  I only got output from the body close and open.

Jim

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From: latexrefman <latexrefman-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2018 6:09:32 PM
To: latexrefman at tug.org
Subject: Re: [latexrefman] document home page link

It shouldn't be necessary to postprocess the html. If [About] fails,
PRE_BODY_CLOSE does work, as far as I can tell. I think you failed to
see the footer in some nodes because your css made the new footer text
overlap with the last line of node text.

In general I don't think it's possible or desirable for PRE_BODY_CLOSE
text to end up on the navigation line at the bottom. That line might be
quite long, depending on the node names, see, e.g.,
  _005cbigskip-_0026-_005cmedskip-_0026-_005csmallskip.html
and with short nodes there is no navigation line at the bottom at all,
unless we change that. (Just depends on the WORDS_IN_PAGE variable.)

So, all in all, I think the PRE_BODY_CLOSE text has to follow the
navigation line. Which is why I started looking into the "About" button.
(One might wish there was a way to define new navigation buttons, but I
don't think there is. Been too long since I was working on all this ...)

Later ... -k