dss/index.html.m4, branch master

Provide a static binary.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

For users which can't be bothered to use git or compile from source.

build: Move m4-only definitions to separate file.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

We currently pass a number of variables to m4 by specifying command line options of the form -D var=val. This approach makes the output of "make V=1" very verbose due to the three multi-line descriptions. To addresses this issue, introduce defs.m4 which contains one m4 macro definition for each former make variable. The end result should be identical. We tweak the M4 make variable to always read defs.m4 before the first regular input file so that the suite and the web page see the definitions. The third user of the former make variables is the README phony target. To convert this as well, we rename the README file to README.m4 and adjust the rule of the README phony target to run m4 on this file. Switch to saner m4 quoting characters while at it.

index.html: Inline the svg image.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This way the web page can be installed by copying a single html file. It also speeds up page loading since no additional http request is needed to download the image file.

index.html: Adjust font size for code.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

At least on some firefox versions, the characters of the default monospace font look a bit small.

index.html: Right-justify the text.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This looks much better. We don't want that for table cells, though.

index.html: Remove navigation menu.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

The page has become simple enough, making the navigation links useless. The page no longer contains any

tags, so remove the corresponding part of the style sheet.

index.html: Inline style sheet.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This should speed up page loading because it saves the additional http connection to the web server to download dss.css.

No longer include NEWS in index.html.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

It's not like the dss project saw lots of news lately, and the old news items only clutter the web page. This removes the last invocation of markdown(1), making the build independent of the discount converter. We keep maintaining the NEWS file in the repo, however. It's just no longer part of the web page.

index.html: Simplify make rule.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This avoids index.html.in and parses index.html.m4 only once.

Kill INSTALL.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

Move the installation instructions to index.html.m4 and the configuration bits to the new examples section of the man page. Streamline the installation instructions and recommend to install the debian package of lopsub.