On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:44:02PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote: > Furthermore, it seems that specifying these config values even with > --pdf has no effect, e.g., the -c makes no difference to the output here: > makeinfo -c everyheading='lft@|ctr@|rt' --pdf hello.texi > (And I wouldn't expect this to work, since it would take a lot of pain > to pass the setting to TeX.) > > Thus, I suggest the documentation would be clearer if it said these are > parsed but ignored by makeinfo, so people don't think they are going to > control, e.g., the HTML head/foot with them. Or, even simpler, don't > even bother to mention them, unless they have some purpose to tp that I > am not seeing. > > I surmise the same no-op-ness is true of others in that list, e.g., > @setchapternewpage, but I didn't do more experiments. --best, karl.
I've commented these variables out in the manual and also added a note that the variables may not be passed on to TeX. Thanks.
