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

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:03:10 +0200, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> said:

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

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

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

C-h f texinfo-format-buffer

    texinfo-format-buffer is an autoloaded interactive Lisp function in
    `texinfmt.el'.

    (texinfo-format-buffer &optional NOSPLIT)

    Process the current buffer as texinfo code, into an Info file.
    The Info file output is generated in a buffer visiting the Info file
    name specified in the @setfilename command.

    Non-nil argument (prefix, if interactive) means don't make tag table
    and don't split the file if large.  You can use `Info-tagify' and
    `Info-split' to do these manually.

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

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

Thatʼs still true, Info-validate only looks at the current buffer.

Robert
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