> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:13:20 +0100
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:30:30PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > So just using @maketitle to produce the copyright page too is
> > a real possibility.
>
> So I've been seeing what I can implement in texinfo.tex as a prototype
> for this feature area.
Thanks.
> Here's a demonstration of how it can be used, with info-stnd.texi:
>
> diff --git a/doc/info-stnd.texi b/doc/info-stnd.texi
> index ef1525b975..278e6c7927 100644
> --- a/doc/info-stnd.texi
> +++ b/doc/info-stnd.texi
> @@ -39,15 +39,14 @@
> * info stand-alone: (info-stnd). Read Info documents without Emacs.
> @end direntry
>
> -@titlepage
> +@documentinfo
> @title Stand-alone GNU Info
> @subtitle for version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
> @author Brian J. Fox
> @author and Texinfo maintainers
> -@page
> -@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
> -@insertcopying
> -@end titlepage
> +@end documentinfo
> +
> +@maketitle
>
> @contents
>
>
> It would be good in my opinion to get rid of the @vskip line as it
> looks ugly and confusing and probably turns people off.
I think this calls for some research: how many manuals do NOT use the
standard @vskip line, and if there are any, why do they omit it?
If all of them use @vskip, we could just make that the default, and
wait for feature requests before implementing something that
countermands what @vskip did.
