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Re: Change the recommended first line? (was: texinfo should support Emac
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Change the recommended first line? (was: texinfo should support Emacs coding specifier) |
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Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:22:47 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:07:56 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden>, Texinfo <address@hidden>
>
> Do you know whether the lines
>
> @c %**start of header
>
> and
>
> @c %**end of header
>
> are still useful for anyone? The manual says
>
> The @code{@@c ...header} lines above which surround the
> @code{@@setfilename} and @code{@@settitle} lines allow you to process,
> within Emacs, just part of the Texinfo source. (@xref{Start of
> Header}.)
>
> but I've never really understood what this means.
These lines are still useful if one uses the commands in texinfmt.el
to process a Texinfo source. However, those commands are most
probably never used any longer, since they fell behind in supporting
the new language features years ago.
- Re: texinfo should support Emacs coding specifier, (continued)
Change the recommended first line? (was: texinfo should support Emacs coding specifier), Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/26