From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:11:07 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5567-Sat06Dec2003191106+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <8765heixvu.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ptfkdqss.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20031122214251.GA14680@fencepost> <874qwuqjzw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311241619.hAOGJ6W27027@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312030147.hB31lUh20316@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2914-Wed03Dec2003181809+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200312040254.hB42sjq25857@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312061611.hB6GBKcW004902@hamberg.it.uu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070731030 10280 80.91.224.253 (6 Dec 2003 17:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, epameinondas@gmx.de, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 18:17:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASg3H-000443-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:17:07 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASg3H-00063J-00 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:17:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASgxs-00008c-Be for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASgxM-00007L-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASgwp-0008MF-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:15:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.18] (helo=bilbo.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASgwp-0008C8-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:14:31 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-196-203.inter.net.il [80.230.196.203]) by bilbo.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.8-GR) with ESMTP id CAC25891; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:12:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200312061611.hB6GBKcW004902@hamberg.it.uu.se> (ams@kemisten.nu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18465 > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:11:20 +0100 (MET) > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > > In practice, you could also go another route -- and let makeinfo > produce two files, a .info and a .markup file. The .info file will > be identical to what we have today, while the .markup file will > contain a simple list of "tagging info" for the .info file, which > reflects what @-commands were used to produce each part of the > .info file. > > If going that route, don't make it a seperate file. Instead make it > something similar to the "tag table" which exists in info files > already; and call it "markup table". But that would break old versions of the standalone reader, right? The whole point of Kim's suggestion was to make a change that cannot possibly break old versions of Info.