If a format is included in the distribution, it is enabled by default.
If a format is not included, then it is disabled by default. If someone
enables a format that was not distributed, then they are claiming that
they have some development tools that are up to the task of regenerating
the non-distributed format.
That sounds fine.
1. Please shorten to "html" (as is done for "ps")
I'm not sure. By Bob's argument, `html' could be useful to stand for
any sort of HTML generation, if there is non-Texinfo documentation involved.
2. Please make available enable/disable macros for each output type:
info, html, xml, ps, ...
I agree we could support all the formats (currently: info html xml
docbook ps pdf plaintext) uniformly, although I don't think I want to
propose all those variables and targets for the coding standards. (I
see little point to ps these days, but whatever.)
I guess they would all need Automake options. There'd be no other
practical way to enable html (say) by default, I think.
This is more work than you were bargaining for. :-) I'll write up
a texi.m4 file with the enablement config macros in it, if you're
willing to roll it up with the other texinfo changes ...
It is up to the Autoconf maintainers, but I hope they'll accept.
Thanks.
