Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-07-02 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 11:23:14PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > I've been learning about features in "KOMA-Script" (a LaTeX system) > > that allow for the creation of copyright pages: > > > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12570/how-to-add-a-copyright-page-to-the-report-class > > https

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-07-02 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:30:29PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 06:53:20PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > The user uses @maketitle to produce the title page, and the second page > > > is created by the contents of the @copyrightpage block. > > > > > > We could also possib

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-30 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 06:53:20PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > The user uses @maketitle to produce the title page, and the second page > > is created by the contents of the @copyrightpage block. > > > > We could also possibly provide a @makecopyrightpage command > > for a default copyright pag

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-29 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 09:12:41PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 06:53:20PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > title verso page for TeX output (and possibly LaTeX output with texi2any). > > > I don't think it's advisable to try and make it automatic. Sometimes > > > users > >

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-29 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 06:53:20PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 01:31:31AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > > In the default case, when using @documentinfo, the copying text would > > > > be output > > > > on the verso of the title page in PDF output. No separate command

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-29 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 01:31:31AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > In the default case, when using @documentinfo, the copying text would be > > > output > > > on the verso of the title page in PDF output. No separate command would > > > be > > > necessary. > > > > It is necessary if the user wa

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-28 Thread Gavin Smith
> > In the default case, when using @documentinfo, the copying text would be > > output > > on the verso of the title page in PDF output. No separate command would be > > necessary. > > It is necessary if the user wants a specific formatting different than > the default. Could we support input

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-28 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 07:49:58PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > Coming back to this thread as I was prompted by Patrice: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-01/msg00066.html > > I don't have a complete proposal but will post some comments to help > get this conversation going a

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-06-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Coming back to this thread as I was prompted by Patrice: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2025-01/msg00066.html I don't have a complete proposal but will post some comments to help get this conversation going again. I like the proposed @documentinfo command to contain metadata such

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-01-13 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 10:11:11PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > I propose to add a @documentinfo block which would contain information > that can be used for diverse purposes, but in particular to do the formatting > previously assigned to @titlepage. I don't object in principle but I can't promi

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-01-12 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 07:53:20AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > without seeing examples. So how about showing one or more examples of > formatting @titlepage block with the current commands, and what would > it look like under this/these proposal(s)? The example in the Texinfo manual: @titlepag

Re: replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-01-11 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:11:11 +0100 > From: Patrice Dumas > > Hello, > > Here is a proposal to move on on the @titlepage redesign, which is mainly > based on Gavin ideas in > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-03/msg00029.html > > I propose to add a @documentinfo block whic

replacement for titlepage and more metadata commands

2025-01-11 Thread Patrice Dumas
Hello, Here is a proposal to move on on the @titlepage redesign, which is mainly based on Gavin ideas in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2019-03/msg00029.html I propose to add a @documentinfo block which would contain information that can be used for diverse purposes, but in partic