Hi Karl. > 2. For all current features of the Texinfo language, the docbook output > generated by makeinfo should be valid docbook. I think we all agree > on this as a principle. > > Agreed. > > If we accept this, then for makeinfo --docbook, any text > following @part and preceding the first @chapter should be > wrapped in <partintro> tags, and Patrice should fix this. > > I am fine for makeinfo to issue a warning about such text if not > in docbook mode. > > Karl, do you approve this docbook-specific fix? > > I guess I'm ok with both parts of this (the <partintro> and the > non-docbook warning),
Much thanks. I will try in the future to stick to real bugs w.r.t. docbook generation. > but ... > > wrapping <partintro> tags in @docbook works > > .. that actually seems cleaner to me. Not really - the translator should handle it. What if <partintro> goes away in some subsequent docbook revision? Such things have been known to happen. > Thanks, and sorry to be such a curmudgeon about it all. It's OK. Welcome to the curmudgeon club. (Can we get our own mascot? Maybe an aging GNU with a cane. :-) I think we all have our whiny users; I just hope that I'm on the low end of the "whiny" scale. :-) Thanks, Arnold
