Re: report with biggest nodes

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 03:35:14PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I hope that nodes will mostly be used to have something shorter 
>     for section names.
> 
> Aside: which is generally undesirable anyway.  I hate that it was
> historically encouraged.  Anyway.

Well, it looks better in menus when it is shorter, in my opinion.

>     In the future, with missing nodes and menu automatic generation, 
> 
> Another aside: I wasn't actually aware we were moving down this road.
> We don't want to encourage people to do without nodes.  Or rather,
> without menus.  Humans should really make those decisions ...

My idea was to automatically generate menu entries that are not already
done by the user.

>     So I'll put that in texi2any -- although I guess we can keep the
>     stand-alone script somewhere, like in util.
> 
> Let's not bother with the standalone script.  Or at least, let's not
> install it.  Then it would have to be documented, man page, info
> invoking section, etc., etc., and it's not worth all that trouble.
> Instead, let's just mention the functionality and the incantation in the
> manual.

Ok.  I'll certainly move it to util, it could be an example.

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Pat