[texinfo-pretest] Project: texi2latex

[Patrice Dumas]

> 3) I don't think rms would take kindly to me documenting a putative
>    @ifroff command by saying "this is only useful with texi2html".  His

It was only an example, I don't think that for roff it deserves a new command
but I also think that texinfo language features should be better seen as 
independant of the implementation. If there is a real interest in the foo 
format and there is a texi2foo maintained and up to date that could even be in
the manual. Afterall the TeX backend is allready a competitor for makeinfo...
But if you dislike it's not a problem. You allready advertise them on the
texinfo page, that's enough!

Maybe it could be possible to have @ commands for formats not yet handled by
makeinfo and just say something vague in the manual.

>    whole view is that texi2html, XML translators, etc., should not
>    exist, and efforts are best spent improving makeinfo.  (I don't feel
>    so draconian about it myself, as I hope you know.)  See his text that
>    I put at the end of README.dev...

I agree that in general it is better to join forces especially when the 
resulting software can be copied at no cost. But a bit of friendly competition 
is good too and also having different points of view, especially when the 
designs are different.

Pat