Re: don't expand @ifinfo anymore ?

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:08:31 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Organization Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dumas Patrice wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Currently texi2html expands @ifinfo sections. I believe this is so in 
>order to cope with manuals including within @ifinfo things which appears
>only in info, but which are also relevant in html, like the Top node.
>
>I think that it is bad. It would be much better to use @ifnottex (or
>sometimes @includecopying) and keep @ifinfo for things really reserved for
>info.
>
>What do you think about that ?
>  
>

I agree completely.  If any manuals are using @ifinfo incorrectly, it 
should be their responsibility to update rather than texi2html's 
responsibility to guess in a way that complicates life for people who 
write their manuals correctly.

Derek

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