Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Richard Stallman >> Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:10:09 -0500 >> >> > FWIW, I don't think this (IMO very useful and installed on my >> > machines) manual belongs to Emacs. It should be a separate manual. >> >> As a general design principle, it doesn't seem to make sense to >> include all GNU manuals in the Emacs distribution merely because they >> are useful manuals. The idea was to relese them separately and have >> them installed separately into a combined info tree. >> >> Why is that not working? What needs to be changed in some GNU/Linux >> distros? > > It does work in general. However, some manuals, which don't belong to > any project in particular, are largely unknown to exist. The two > prominent examples I have are for some reason both related to the C > language: gnu-c-manual.info and c.info. The latter is not even > mentioned in dir-example file that the Texinfo project distributes. Understood. I have created a prototype ELPA package, comments welcome? upstream url: https://github.com/jeremy-bryant/c-intro-and-ref As some manuals are available in GNU/Linux distros but not this one, it would provide a distribution mechanism for c.info I also include a PDF output. Current Package name, proposed for ELPA: c-intro-and-ref This matches the existing manual distribution. Perhaps a name such as: gnu-c-manual would be easier to find, however on gnu.org this points to another, maybe a predecessor manual. (https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-c-manual.html) Main file: c-intro-and-ref.el This is simply a placeholder for the c.texi and other files