Re: Suggestions for texi2any parsing

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 10:38:09PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> We have added a new command @nodedescription in the upcoming release
> that contains the description that appears in @menus allowing to have an
> automatic generation of menus with descriptions.  For example:
> 
> @node Copying Conditions
> @nodedescription Your rights.
> @unnumbered Texinfo Copying Conditions
> 
> Maybe this is what you are looking for?

Note that this feature was in an actual release of Texinfo, 7.1.

> > == Support for image URLs
> > 
> > I use @image for the images, and this requires a local file. I can work
> > around this either by having the file, or doing some pre-processing, but
> > it would be easier to support image URLs. I understand that this is
> > something that is not simple since it wouldn't work in non HTML modes,
> > so I get why it is like it is.

I don't think it is worth adding support for image URLs as the image
file should be included with the manual sources if it is a necessary
part of the manual.