From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144988397 4302 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 04:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 14 06:19:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUFmg-0003Kk-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUFmg-0007sB-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUFlq-00075w-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUFlo-00074U-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUFlo-000748-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FUFrH-0001AZ-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FUFln-0006i1-Bc; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:55 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:28:46 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52857 Archived-At: 3) Have those ``extra'' sections be part of the on-line manual, but not of the printed manual. In the printed manual, replace the extra sections with an xref to the extra manual. The Texinfo @ifinfo facility should do the trick. This should be a good solution to the original problem, which is that the FSF wants the printed manuals it sells to not be too large. This might be a good approach, as a replacement for emacs-xtra. If we do not find a good way to split the manual in two, we could do this instead. Would someone like to work on this and verify that it really works?