>>> Sorry, I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve. >>> Why are you separating copyright text and license text?
I don’t know how to keep the @ifinfo trick (see the attachment) without separating them. Maybe the @ifinfo part should be removed. >>> Can you send me the whole file (beginning of it, anyway)? >>> The diff is hard to read. Attached. >> And yeah, there could be a single macro since the two always go >> together. > Why is a macro needed at all? > (vs. just using text inside @copying). In the document, nearly the same (more on that later) copyright notice is repeated three times. A new contributor would have to adjust each notice, which is error-prone. Now, I said “nearly” because the “Copyright” lines are different, but they should be identical.
\input texinfo
@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename guix.info
@documentencoding UTF-8
@settitle GNU Guix Reference Manual
@c %**end of header
@include version.texi
@set YEARS 2012, 2013
@dircategory Package management
@direntry
* guix: (guix). Guix, the functional package manager.
* guix package: (guix)Invoking guix package
Managing packages with Guix.
* guix build: (guix)Invoking guix build
Building packages with Guix.
@end direntry
@titlepage
@title GNU Guix Reference Manual
@subtitle Using the GNU Guix Functional Package Manager
@author Ludovic Courtès
@author Andreas Enge
@author Nikita Karetnikov
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
Edition @value{EDITION} @*
@value{UPDATED} @*
Copyright @copyright{} @value{YEARS} Ludovic Court@`es, Andreas Enge, Nikita
Karetnikov
@ifinfo
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
Documentation License''.
@end quotation
@end ifinfo
@end titlepage
@copying
This manual documents GNU Guix version @value{VERSION}.
Copyright @copyright{} @value{YEARS} Ludovic Courtès
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
Documentation License.''
@end copying
@contents
@c *********************************************************************
@node Top
@top GNU Guix
This document describes GNU Guix version @value{VERSION}, a functional
package management tool written for the GNU system.
@quotation
Copyright @copyright{} @value{YEARS} Ludovic Courtès, Andreas Enge, Nikita
Karetnikov
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
Documentation License.''
@end quotation
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