Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Arsen Arsenović]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> In hindsight, I'd also not mind if info-stnd.texi contained a copy of
>> the Info tutorial that the Emacs info manual includes, so that the
>> standalone viewers get-info-help-node works always.  What do you think
>> of that?
>
> Someone will have to do the job, and the non-traditional structure of
> info.info makes that a tad harder.
>
> There's also an additional problem for Emacs users: if info.info is
> not in Emacs, then new users of Info have no way of learning to use
> Info.  So I guess this will have to be some kind of duplication or
> something?

Hm, yes, I had taken it for granted that Texinfo is installed if Emacs
is, but that might not be true.  That makes duplicating the tutorial bit 
of info.info into info-stnd more appealing, I think.

My thinking was to break out the (info)Getting Started node and its
subnodes into info-tutorial.texi or such, and @include it into both
manuals.  There would need to be slight adjustment to the text, as not
all of the first paragraph is applicable to info-stnd.

Quickly skimming it, that node list appears to be closed under internal
(in the sense of "within the same manual") referencing, except for a
reference to *note Emacs Info Variables::, but that could be made
conditionally included or a conditionally external reference.

I think it's doable with fairly little cost.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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