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Re: @small* commands alias in HTML are problematic


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: @small* commands alias in HTML are problematic
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:28:02 +0100 (CET)

>> IMHO, the 'smallness' is more than just a stylistic thing.  While
>> mainly used for horizontally large examples, another application
>> could be to mark paragraphs as 'technical' or the like, to be
>> skipped by ordinary users.
> 
> It would be good to see if anybody was using a @small* command for
> this.  I don't [think] this usage has ever been recommended.

Well, the cat bites its tail here.  Because it is not recommended,
nobody is using it, and people avoid the invention of new use-cases to
not abuse the texinfo markup...

Our LilyPond PDF manuals contain almost 3000 pages in total (counting
only the English version) – having small paragraphs and the like would
be definitely useful.


    Werner

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