From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:42:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efh3u8qu.fsf@bernoul.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1qxizd8.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
>> Currently ox-texinfo uses the text before the first Org section as the
>> "Top" Info node. That is fine for manuals like org-manual.org where
>> that part of the document only consists of a few lines. In my manuals
>> there are up to 40 lines before the first heading, which makes it
>> desirable to make that part of the document collapsible.
>
> You can use a drawer for that:
>
> :PREAMBLE:
> ...
> :END:
That works for me.
>> It is already possible to set the section whose content is to be used
>> on the copyright page (and which can be inserted elsewhere using
>> "#+texinfo: @insertcopying") using the COPYING property.
>>
>> Could you please implement something similar for the "Top" node, using
>> a property such as TOP?
>
> This sounds awkward, e.g., what would become the text before the first
> heading?
I guess it could either be ignored or prepended to the text from the TOP
section.
> AFAIU, there no really need for it, isn't it?
I didn't know about the PREAMBLE thing. Now that I do, I don't need
anything else.
Thanks for your help
Jonas
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2018-06-17 5:33 ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node Jonas Bernoulli
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