[help-texinfo] Fwd: Texinfo questions

[Gavin Smith]

I'm forwarding some questions that have been sent to me by Stéphane
Rivière to see if others have ideas.


>By the way, I have, since many years, a question about Texinfo "good 
>practises". I use Texinfo since 10 years, writing docs like this (1).
>
>I allways have problems when I have to insert source code.
>
>I can't use "@cartouche" as it breaks page setup and don't accept more than a 
>page. So I generally use "@example".

Is it possible to split a cartouche across pages?


>I'm dreaming to have something like "@sourcenumbered [name]" :
>
>- name ------------------- <- a generated line (with optional name)
> 1
> 2 if ...
> 3
> 4
> 5
>- eof name --------------- <- a generated line
>
>
>Do you know if someone has implemented this ?

My suggestion was to @input an automatically generated file with the
line numbers added. I thought it would be possible to add the line
numbers with TeX, but that wouldn't help with the other output
formats. If TeX could run and use the output from an external program
that would be another option, although I doubt that is a feature.

>Is there a [...] macros collections for Texinfo on the web ?
>
>I dig the web about theses questions without success...
>
>
>
>All the best from France and Germany,
>
>
>Stephane
>
>(1)
>http://sriviere.info/fic/pdf/aide-en-1.03.pdf
>http://sriviere.info/index.php/en/contributions/26.html