Re: Project bloat report

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.

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Pat