On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:59:20AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Hi Karl and Patrice. > > > How about: > > > > @part Part Title > > @docbook > > <partintro>intro to part blah blah</partintro> > > @end docbook > > > > Does that work? That seems to me to best reflect the reality of the > > situation, which is that "partintro" text is a Docbook feature, not > > supported in Texinfo. > > It probably works, but it means I have to write all the > text in docbook instead of in Texinfo. I tried various bits > with @inlinefmt but then the <partintro> got wrapped inside > <para> tags and that was totally wrong.
Doesn't the following work: @part A nice part @ifdocbook @docbook <partintro> @end docbook The part is very nice. @docbook </partintro> @end docbook @end ifdocbook > Is it reasonable to require that text after @part and before @chapter be > wrapped in @ifdocbook and then makeinfo can supply the <partintro> tags? I think that there should be no situation in which we document that @if* commands should be used to use a Texinfo feature. There is only one such occurrence for now, for the titlepage, and I think that it should not be that way. > 1. Require and document that @part and following text be wrapped > in @ifnotinfo. Same as above, I don't think that we should ever propose to the user in the Texinfo manual format conditionals for standard Texinfo language features. > 4. makeinfo --docbook supplies <partintro> tags. That being said, I still think that it could make sense to supply <partintro> tags to get valid DocBook, even if the Texinfo is invalid, but I leave that decision to Karl. -- Pat
