tb> Do you think of an additional meta-syntax for Texinfo source
files, so that special tools can create man and --help out of it?
GCC does this (for man pages, not for --help). It ends up requiring a
lot of contortions in the writing, it seems to me; readers simply have
very different expectations of man pages and Texinfo manuals. I think
help2man and info --usage are more widely applicable approaches. So I
am not too excited about adding something to the base language -- not
that I would reject out of a hand a well-thought-out design and
implementation :).
As for integrating the source code with the --help output, etc., the
autogen and gengetopt GNU packages do that job. I personally find that
that is the point at which the overhead outweighs the usefulness. I
also don't necessarily want to be constrained to use exactly the same
words in all those places; terseness is necessary in --help, but not in
the Texinfo manual.
Best,
karl
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