Re: feature request for sidebars

[arnold]

Thanks Patrice for the makeinfo change!

pertusus@free.fr wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:43:08PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 01:01:11AM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > > Hi Patrice.
> > > 
> > > Having @cartouche take an optional title and render as <sidebar> in
> > > Docbook would be a perfect solution for me. I don't need the @sidebar
> > > command specifically, just the fucntionality.  So, I really like this
> > > suggestion.
> > 
> > I agree; there seems to be no reason that this shouldn't be implemented
> > and it is a good use of the @cartouche command, avoiding the need for
> > any new command to be added.
>
> For LaTeX there is an optional argument of mdframed that could be used,

Does makeinfo generate LaTeX these days?

> for HTML cartouche is in a table, so a table title should be ok.  Any
> idea on how the @cartouche title should be formatted in Plaintext/Info?
> Maybe simply output the line followed by an empty line?

I transformed @sidebar into

        @cartouche
        @center{@b{Title Stuff Here}}
        ....
        @end cartouche

Can that be done for TeX and Info?

Thanks!

Arnold