Re: Paragraph indentation suppression

[Simon Law]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:45:39PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     make "@firstparagraphindent suppress" the default?  
> 
> I don't see any compelling reason to make the `suppress' behavior the
> default.  The majority of books are printed like that, but is that a
> compelling reason?  I dunno.

        The compelling reason is that 'suppress' is the correct
behaviour, and the other one isn't.  We've been doing it wrong for so
long that we think it's normal.  But that's not a big excuse to stay
incorrect.

        I'd personally like to suggest that we warn people that we'll be
doing this to them in Texinfo 5.0, since it will be a rather major
change.  I'd hate to see people printing out Texinfo manuals that are
uglier than they have to be because they don't read the documentation.

>     rename "@firstparagraphindent default" to something else 
> 
> In any case, yes, I'll dream up some other word there.
> 
> Thanks for doing the work.

        No problem.

Simon