On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 04:38:07PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 05:01:35PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > What about associated @-commands, such as @xml, @ifxml..., or @inlinefmt > > argument name? My view is that they should be removed too, it is > > possible to use @ifcommanddefined if needed. > > @ifxml may be used in a few manuals. I found it was used in the Gawk > documentation, as well as in the Texinfo manual. It's used if the > document author has gone through and added conditional blocks for > every output format that texi2any supports. > > Could we mark these commands as deprecated and never output @ifxml blocks > and always output @ifnotxml blocks, likewise for @xml and inline conditionals?
Ok. We should probably keep them as you propose for a few releases. But I also think that we should say that they could be removed in later releases, otherwise they will remain until the end of time. -- Pat
