From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recent changes in doc/misc/
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:47:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vcbuozr9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D5D2E0.4000201@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:33:52 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > . why some of the manuals @include gpl.texi, while others include its
> > contents instead?
>
> In the old days gpl.texi contained sectioning commands
> and @node, so it wouldn't fit into manuals that wanted to do their
> own sectioning, and people would copy the text of gpl.texi
> without its sectioning commands. Nowadays that problem has been fixed,
> so @include gpl.texi should suffice.
>
> Hmm, but I just now checked, and I didn't see any Emacs manuals that
> contain copies of gpl.texi's contents, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding
> your question.
Sorry, I was confused. Ignore the second issue, only the first is
real.
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2012-12-22 9:01 Recent changes in doc/misc/ Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-22 15:33 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-22 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-22 18:31 ` Glenn Morris
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