Hello, For the upcoming release, I would like to have a change made to the Texinfo language by adding the possibility to add metadata in a generic way. The different output formats would then use these metadata in a format specific way. We already have metadata with @title, @author... but I think that we should limit metadata associated @-commands to basic metadata.
I think that a block command for generic metadata would be better because we do not know in advance about the type of information corresponding to the metadata. Like: @metadata keywords a, b, something @end metadata @metadata abstract This is about foo @quotation This is in abstract. @end quotation @end metadata I think that we should document that it should be in @documentinfo, although in implementations we could be more lenient and allow it outside, in preamble. My feeling is that it could be ignored by TeX, LaTeX, plaintext and Info output. For DocBook, at least some bookinfo elements could be detected. For HTML, some specific values for meta could be used: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name In EPUB there are several metadata that can or should be specified that are described in the standard. -- Pat
