On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 05:54:01PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > 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.
That's ok with me.
