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Use @finalout in gendocs.sh?


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Use @finalout in gendocs.sh?
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:18:45 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

After being annoyed by the black boxes in my manuals, I searched the
texinfo manual and was delighted to find the section about overfull
hboxes.  It mentions @finalout.  While generating output directed for
developers instead of users, by default, feels a bit weird, at least
it seems useful to use @finalout in gendocs.sh so that at least
published manuals look better.  To do that, it would be useful to have
a parameter like:

makeinfo -e @finalout foo.texi

to evaluate texinfo statements on the command line, like @finalout.
Perhaps @finalout is so different from other texinfo commands that it
should have its own --final-out instead.

Or the inverse, make @finalout the default, and add -g / --debug to
generate the black boxes, for developers.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Simon





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