> From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:50:42 +0300 > Cc: <bug-texinfo@gnu.org> > > Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > > > If you want a command whose effect is position-dependent, you could > > already use @value, can't you? > > How could @value have helped in this case?
I meant that you could use @value in the 4th argument to @xref. > > Sounds like Karl and Patrice have already figured out a way to solve > > this. Their solution sounds better than yours, since there will be a > > single place where such things are defined. > > As I said in my letter to Karl, I seem to have missed something. I don't > know what solution you are talking about. This one: > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:46:25 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Such a feature might be useful. Nevertheless, I believe that the > > documentation system should provide a mechanism for specifying base URLs > > in the document. For example, if any piece of documentation refers, say, > > to GNU tar, it is quite natural to point to the tar's documentation on > > www.gnu.org and not elsewhere. Besides, the same document can refer to > > Something is already planned for that, using a configuration file, > called 'htmlxref.cnf'. Then in that file you can add entries like > > tar mono www.gnu.org/somewhere/ > tar split www.gnu.org/somewhere/nodes
