On 27 November 2016 at 19:39, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be nice to have some kind of extensibility mechanism. One way > of doing this would be to add a command, for example @span, which > could be passed through to the output format in some form, enabling > further processing by tools to add styles to the marked text. For > example, if the LaTeX backend is ever done, this would allow any of > the styling options provided with LaTeX. Similarly for HTML and CSS. > This proposal only covers text styling: someone was asking a few days > ago about vertically centring images, which I can't think how it could > be achieved in a good way: probably by marking the image in a way that > would allow post-processing of the output after the Texinfo tools are > finished. > > The idea here is to allow extensibility without implementing all of > that in Texinfo, because that would be painful, probably not done very > well and would always be incomplete.
Related proposal here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-03/msg00025.html
