From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master dfaf150631: Add a new library to format variable-pitch tables Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:49:15 +0200 Message-ID: <835ypazzbo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <164527299527.13254.13621180534925877627@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220219121635.B1D3BC00894@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87r17zm48e.fsf@yahoo.com> <87pmnjvxjt.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9861"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 15:51:00 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nLR4d-0002S4-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:51:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52014 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLR4c-0005LB-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:50:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLR2z-0004di-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60958 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLR2z-0007Sg-5x; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:49:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=AF7NlfWc+hlCsswlys1ntBwz3LMKNF5H55z3fouzBP0=; b=QEIjjLW6pQVN LNJTijVdi5MiD/uG7iSzqrG5zY9x3zxjegB5oA/4D9sBPESkXkuGZEYA+6zOeDtdSUu02BiRpa+HI 3wPhF6KsyTOlBqtyvJOamR4xWpHhVJhbNt6gYsh7EYXtmILJawC7P66cN/bsLdEQQCxfht06OKOFB DTMQYpxN0puA46w6mkZriScKeH9gvM3J+b2VsZOMNMiGxSrchyXBBwaUvoPWJZCUbR3wUTf7uxkKR u3KekaeJo3mYEHsJ49nir55gJT58iQnGABi+GkKMAolgOlHUTJ/TARWrCIoyJy3kmUcz7H6lIgV/0 IYUfiG14fVBXq7X9v/qvhQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1980 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLR2y-0004px-L4; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:49:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pmnjvxjt.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:41:10 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286469 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:41:10 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Po Lu writes: > > >> doc/misc/vtable.texi | 521 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > I really like the library, but does it warrant an entire manual? > > > > Emacs currently ships with 65 manuals, and I think we don't want any > > more, certainly not for a core Lisp library which will hopefully be used > > by many important features in the future. > > You'd rather have it in the main lispref manual? That was my original > intention, but it grew kinda long, so I felt it would be better to keep > it separate. Yes, we should take extra care not to enlarge the ELisp manual too much -- it already prints as 2 large volumes. But we can include stuff in it that will not be included in the printed copy, like we already do in the user manual: use @include under @ifnottex condition. I don't have a problem with either alternative, FWIW.