On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 04:19:51AM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Excuse me interrupting here, given my lack of experience with Texinfo. Would > it break backwards compatibility to remove this as an absolute requirement for > a valid Texinfo document? It would certainly make things easier for me if this > could be guessed based on filename, or passed as a command option.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:48:17AM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > It is theoretically possible, but far from easy. For now @setfilename > must stay required for TeX. Did you mean TeX specifically, or Texinfo as well? As you know, I've been playing around with some software that lets people use Texinfo as a lightweight plain-text format for editing websites, and having to manually use @setfilename would be cumbersome, because of its redundancy. Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
