Re: automatic detection of glossary terms and bibliography is bad

Dumas Patrice wrote:

>Hi,
>
>There is a feature in texi2html which I find should be removed. It is the
>detection of bibliography items and glossary items. It is not that I think
>it is a bad idea to have bibliography items and glossary items handled 
>specially, but as it isn't done by a texinfo command we should refrain from
>doing anything with it. Or, to state it otherwise, implement it only
>when it has become a texinfo feature.
>
>If somebody think it is really something which should be handled, then it
>should be submitted to the texinfo maintainer, first, and only if he 
>refuse we could do something. But even in that case we should do it with
>a macro and not bare pattern matching.
>
>Maybe a implementation of that in texinfo would be the following:
>
>There is a new table type rtable (or maybe anchortable ?), and each element 
>of a rtable is added as an anchor. It is then possible to use the regular 
>*ref commands to make reference to the anchors.
>
>What do all of you think about that (especially the ones who added/need 
>that feature) ?
>
>Pat
>
>Note: there are other reasons why it is a bad idea and could break things,
>but I think that the fact that it isn't some texinfo should rule it out
>anyway, without further look at technical details (like, in my opinion, any
>feature which isn't in texinfo or isn't implemented as @macro). 
>
>In my opinion any attempt to do things which aren't in texinfo or, 
>if the texinfo maintainer refused a feature, aren't implemented as
>macros should be banned from the code.
>  
>

I can't argue with you.  As far as I understand texinfo, you sound 
correct, and I can't fault the logic of your design philosophy.

Incidentally, you sound like you have a better handle on many of these 
texinfo issues than I do, but I'm happy to offer encouragement.  :)

Derek

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