On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 06:34:34PM +0100, Daniel Cerqueira wrote: > > I contributed, or was trying to,
Even if your patches do not make it to the Texinfo release, they still are a valuable contribution, as other users who want conformance can retrieve this exchange and apply your patches, especially since your patches are clean and small. They could also be applied in distributions (such as Fedora, Debien...) if the packages maintainers find that conformance is needed in their distributions. We also have a contrib directory in the Texinfo sources where we could put your patches and document somewhere that they improve conformance of generated epub. > These online stores, need my EPUB file to be in conformance (and they > rightly use EPUBCheck to test for this conformity). If the EPUB file is > not in conformance, it won't be published. That's clearly something to consider that we were not aware of. As Gavin said, even if we favor conformance, we need to weight against other effects on the project as a whole, in particular it should fit as best as possible with the overall design of the Texinfo language and the conversions codes, and the impact on other formats must also be considered. There is also the issue of the timing, we are very near a release, so we should avoid changes that require some testing and having ourselves or users looking at the generated HTML for diverse constructs and on diverse browsers. -- Pat
