This leaves us with the question of what constitutes appropriate use
of @inforef.
How about if you and whoever else is specifically interested
discuss this on bug-texinfo?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
One fundamental difference between emacs-xtra and url is that the
former holds material that was deliberately excluded from the Emacs
manual. OTOH, url is the documentation of a package.
I do not know what the exact relevance of "deliberately excluded from
the Emacs
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:00:42 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> However, last time when I proposed something similar (for url.texi, if
> I remember well), you and Karl and Dave opposed me on this and I wound
> up using a regu
This leaves us with the question of what constitutes appropriate use
of @inforef. (The one reference to emacs-xtra from the Emacs manual
which I put in a lot earlier also uses @inforef.)
I originally proposed that @inforef should refer to any manual for
which there is no _published_ rather than p
"Eli Zaretskii" wrote:
> Since emacs-xtra is not distributed with the Emacs manual, I think
> all references to it should be inside @ifinfo. That way, someone who
> reads a printed version of the Emacs manual will not wonder where to
> find the (non-existent) emacs-xtra manual.
>
> Alternatively,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Since emacs-xtra is not distributed with the Emacs manual, I think all
references to it should be inside @ifinfo. That way, someone who
reads a printed version of the Emacs manual will not wonder where to
find the (non-existent) emacs-xtra manual.
Somebody readin
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> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:45:16 -0500
> From: Glenn Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/calendar.texi
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:06:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Chong Yidong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Is this file really necessary? The file is short enough to be easily
> merged into the Emacs manual.
The idea behind introducing it was that any docs for features that are
minor or too obscure or unimporta
In the man/ directory there's a file, emacs-xtra.texi, which creates an
Info file that "contains detailed information about various features that
are too specialized to be included in the Emacs manual". Currently, this
is around 250 lines documenting (i) auto-reverting non-file
