Re: using @titleplage in every format

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:59:37AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Thinking about this again, if @titlepage were to be used for all
> > formats, it should be purged of all presentational or non-semantic
> > content. The @page, @vskip and @sp commands there are specific to TeX.
> 
> Actually, in my experiments, the titlepage formatted like that looks
> pretty good in HTML, in an old-fashionned way, and somehow similar to 
> the TeX counterpart.

Can you send an example output file?  It not the default at the
moment and may not be what the users expect.  I doubt that we should
be imitating the style of the printed page in an electronic format
such as HTML.

> I think that it would be better to have only one @titlepage for every
> format, which would not prevent from using @if* in it.  It does not
> prevent from using something like @documentinfo and @insertdocumentinfo
> or something like that to be able to set independently the meta data and
> format the @titlepage, but to me that's a different issue.

@titlepage could be an optional command to allow laying out the first 
couple of pages for printed output.  If @titlepage is not given but 
@documentinfo (or whatever it is called) is, this could be generated 
automatically without the @sp, @vskip etc. appearing in the Texinfo 
source.

However, I don't know where information about the publisher, ISBN 
numbers and cover art credits should go in the Texinfo document.  Maybe 
if somebody actually was printing a proper book they would use 
@titlepage after all.