Re: Emacs texinfo-format-buffer and Info file without tag table

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for the fast answer.  A related question, in the
Texinfo manual it is said in 'Creating an Unsplit File' that

 To prevent texinfo-format-buffer from splitting a Texinfo file into smaller
 Info files, give a prefix to the M-x texinfo-format-buffer command:
  C-u M-x texinfo-format-buffer
 or else
  C-u C-c C-e C-b
 When you do this, Texinfo will not split the file and will not create a tag 
table for it.

Do those commands create a tag table now, or still do not?

Yet another question, in the Texinfo manual it is said that
 You can run Info-validate only on a single Info file that has a tag table.
 The command will not work on the indirect subfiles that are generated when
 a master file is split.

Is it still true?  Or has Info-validate been extended to work on split
Info files?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:03:53AM +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:42:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> 
> >>>>> said:
> 
>     Patrice> In the Texinfo manual it is said, in "Tag Files and Split Files" 
> that
>     Patrice>   If a Texinfo file has more than 30,000 bytes, 
> texinfo-format-buffer automatically creates a tag table for its Info file
> Itʼs not been true for a while now:
> 
>     commit 1c87ab3195c32bfabd9533125961eed5f32d8215
>     Author: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>     Date:   Mon Jul 6 00:12:33 1998 +0000
> 
>         (texinfmt-version): Update version.
>         number which is used in header of texinfmt-produced Info files.
>         (texinfo-format-buffer): Now always tagify, on accout of @anchor.