Re: @smallbook and friends

[Simon Law]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:27:13PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>             The documentation does not make it clear that @smallfoo doesn't
>     do anything unless @smallbook has been called.
> 
> The documentation was intentionally vague on that point, because I
> didn't want to promise that behavior :).

        Aha.  I see.

> In fact, I recently changed texinfo.tex so that @small... gives smaller
> fonts even in non-small formats, since a number of users had requested it.
> 
> I would guess that texinfo.tex is not in gcc yet.

        No, it isn't.  James Morrison, my friend and fellow GNU Press
contributor, is pushing Texinfo 4.5 and other patches upstream into
gcc-3_3-branch.

        I am now working off Texinfo MAIN for typesetting so that it
will be easier to pass patches to you.

Simon