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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> AFAICS =E2=80=98stexi->plain-text=E2=80=99 already does paragraph filling=
, so the call
> above is redundant (and could break the rendering.)
>
> However, the width of the rendered text is fixed, unlike what
> =E2=80=98string->recutils=E2=80=99 did so far.  To work around that, we=
=E2=80=99ll have to
> monkey-patch the =E2=80=98wrap*=E2=80=99 procedure of (texinfo plain-text=
), along these
> lines:
>
>   (define %text-width
>     (make-parameter (or (and=3D> (getenv "WIDTH") string->number)
>                         80)))
>
>   (set! (@@ (texinfo plain-text) wrap*)
>         (lambda strings
>           ... #:line-width (%text-width) ...))
>
> and then in =E2=80=98package->recutils=E2=80=99, we need to =E2=80=98para=
meterize=E2=80=99 that.
>
> We need a similar hack for #:initial-indent, that would allow us to
> mimic the 3rd argument of =E2=80=98fill-paragraph=E2=80=99.
>
> Could you try it?

With my limited knowledge, it's not trivial to implement such thing. But
I will try to do something and hopefully learn new things! :)

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Mathieu Lirzin