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Re: How do I suppress "helpful" blank lines generated by makeinfo?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How do I suppress "helpful" blank lines generated by makeinfo?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:13:45 +0300

> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:11:43 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: 
> 
> FYI, the next release of texinfo will throw away the existing C
> implementation of makeinfo entirely, replacing it with texi2html (thanks
> to mountains of hard work by Patrice Dumas and other texi2html folks).

Which IMHO is too bad, since now, instead of using a small stand-alone
executable, everybody will have to install a humongous Perl distro.
While some systems come with Perl pre-installed, not all of them do.

But since I no longer do any useful work on Texinfo, I guess I have no
say in this matter.




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