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Re: Agenda for next Texinfo release
From: |
Patrice Dumas |
Subject: |
Re: Agenda for next Texinfo release |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:46:20 +0100 |
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:36:28PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> The main area of work that I can see before the next Texinfo release is
> made is compatibility of the XS parser with the Perl parser.
>
> I have started some work on testing manuals and automatically looking
> for differences in the output, but need to do more on this. Basically,
> I have a short shell script with a loop in it like this:
>
> for m in $manuals; do
> x=X/`basename $m`.info
> p=P/`basename $m`.info
> TEXINFO_XS=require texi2any $m -o $x --no-split
> TEXINFO_XS=omit texi2any $m -o $p --no-split
> diff $x $p
> done
>
> I also need to document that @example can take an argument.
Is the design of that decided? I would still be in favor of
* having arguments separated by comma ,
* giving a meaning to the first argument (the language) and the
second (small or not for compatibilities with @smallexample and
others).
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Pat