Re: Paragraph indentation suppression

[Karl Berry]

    I think the \parskip should be 0 for TeX (printed) output.
    The current combination is unfortunate.

It is unfortunate, but I'm not willing to go so far as to eliminate one
or the other at the moment.  Although the redundancy is typographically
"unusual", I don't think it's such a bad thing.

    The HTML and info output should probably have "parskip" nonzero as this
    increases readability.

HTML is whatever the browsers do, which is indeed the equivalent of
parindent=0 and parskip>0, in my experience.  Perhaps this can be
controlled with styles these days, but I don't care.  I wouldn't want
the html to be parindent>0 by default even if that can be achieved.  It
would be too unusual compared to every other document on the web.

Info has blank lines separating paragraphs by virtue of the input file,
basically.  With paragraph indent included, which at least matches TeX :).


In general, Texinfo has never had a goal of letting authors tweak the
details of the output to their personal liking.  Unlike (La)TeX, Texinfo
is not a general typesetting system meant for every sort of document and
every sort of style.

However, when it comes to different typographic traditions, it is
desirable for Texinfo to support a manual truly written in Czech, or
Hebrew, or Chinese, or whatever.  And to do so, virtually everything has
to be changeable.  So it may come to the same thing.

However however, as we all know, we are nowhere near that at present.

k