Re: makeinfo swallows page breaks

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 22:56, address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     Guile’s Texinfo parser
>
> Argh.  The idea of a full second Texinfo parser in GNU is fundamentally
> wrong.

I understand where you come from.  For some context on why I wrote this
parser back in 2004:

  http://wingolog.org/archives/2006/11/17/high-on-sodium-vapor

I even had a gtk browser at one point with help:

  http://wingolog.org/pub/texinfo-browser.png

I had a GTK app then with context-sensitive interactive help.  So I
needed to treat docs programmatically.

> If you want to call it a "Guile docstring parser, whose language
> happens to bear some resemblance to a subset of Texinfo", fine.

It is intended to be a strict subset.  To do otherwise we would have to
make a new format, and that would be bad.

Cheers,

Andy
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