From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guile-sdl2 and guile-sly: Missing info pages
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:53:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eouejlt.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi1row5u.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> That said, I've never really understood why Texinfo does not "do the
>> right thing" there and generates the entry automatically.
>
> How would it know what to generate? :-)
>
> See for example the entries we have in guix.texi.
Having a command to define those entries explicitely is
fine. But for simpler manuals where only one entry is enough, and that
entry is merely the title, it would also be nice if Texinfo would derive
it automatically from the title.
--
Pierre Neidhardt
GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (#7): April 2, 1751
Issac Newton becomes discouraged when he falls up a flight of stairs.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-18 2:32 guile-sdl2 and guile-sly: Missing info pages Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 8:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-25 10:01 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 12:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-25 12:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-26 3:23 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
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