> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) > Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:54:39 -0400 > > You could do this by using @defindex right now. > > Eli, I don't understand, you mean define an index called `A'?
Not necessarily called `A', but an index where only items which start with `A' are indexed. > That seems pretty ugly :). It might be ugly and slightly inconvenient, but it does work with all past versions of Texinfo. Seriously: I'm a bit worried about introducing new language features matter-of-factly. Texinfo doesn't have a graceful backward compatibility feature, so a manual that uses a newly introduced directive _forces_ users to upgrade to the latest Texinfo. That is not nice, IMHO. Most other tools I know and use don't behave like that, they always try to make changes back-compatible. So I'd much prefer changes we make in the language are back-compatible, in the sense that they do not cause older versions of makeinfo and texinfo.tex to choke, or crash and burn. Perhaps we should also add a feature which ignores unknown/unsupported directives. That won't help users of older versions now, but it will help in the long run, when future versions introduce incompatible changes. _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
