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bug#57108: Time to retire texinfmt.el
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#57108: Time to retire texinfmt.el |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:25:03 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> It seems like it does nothing that makeinfo doesn't already do better,
> and maintaining it separately from the texinfo project seems like
> duplicate and wasted effort.
I found it instructive to run `M-x texinfo-format-buffer' in
"doc/misc/org.texi", then `C-x C-s' to save the file "org.info", and
then run the following command from the command line:
diff -u info/org.info doc/misc/org.info
This demonstrates that texinfmt.el would need *a lot* of work to produce
output that of the same high quality makeinfo. It leaves things out
from the output, can't handle some markup, mishandles quote characters,
etc., etc.
Just to give an idea:
diff -u info/org.info doc/misc/org.info | wc -l
=> 44325