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Re: Purpose of INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: Purpose of INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:16:44 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:46:57PM +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 28.06.2017 um 22:54 schrieb Gavin Smith:
> >I would like to remove the code for the INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable
> >in texi2any, as it doesn't seem to be used anywhere, and it seems to me
> >to be unnecessary.
> 
> Hmm... isn't that a rather big jump from the existing TODO item:
> 
> > Use INLINE_INSERTCOPYING as the default for some formats?

We're not bound by that; that is just someone's opinion about what might 
be the best way to implement @insertcopying.

> So until now it was considered to be turned on by default(!) for some output
> formats, and instead you now want to remove it entirely, for all of them?

I don't believe it was turned on by default for any output format.

> Also it's currently a documented feature, and has been for at least 7 years
> now:

It is not really a feature, more a detail of the implementation.

> So there's a considerable chance that some documents out there, or their
> build environments, rely on it, and if they do, it'll be generating their
> _legally_crucial_ copyright notice, no less!

How can they be relying on it when the copying text is being inserted 
regardless?



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