Re: Fwd: version vs edition numbers in Emacs manuals

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/10/19 7:26 PM, John Sullivan wrote:
> maybe the solution could be to have two online
> versions, one that corresponds to print and is only updated when a new
> print version is made, and the other is the one that the developers with
> each release or whenever they feel is appropriate? And that latter
> version would not have any edition number. We wouldn't have any problem
> with the primary canonical manual link
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html) being used for
> the online-only version. What do you think?

Sounds good. This can be done by Texinfo flags, which are set for the 
printed version and generate an edition number, and are clear for the 
canonical online/info manual and do not generate an edition number. I 
installed the attached patch into the GNU Emacs master to do this. We 
can tweak it as needed later.

0001-Conditionally-omit-edition-numbers-dates-in-doc.patch
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