On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:05:31AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Even if nothing is done in the default case, which I think is the > > best if we want thos @-command to disappear someday, the information > > should be present such that it can be done in user defined > > replacement functions for the formatting. > > It's not clear to me why you are so opposed to the @small variants. I > consider them *very* useful for both the HTML and the PDF output > (especially the latter).
I don't expect that anything will change any time soon for the PDF output as this would be too disruptive for existing documents. > IMHO, the 'smallness' is more than just a stylistic thing. While > mainly used for horizontally large examples, another application could > be to mark paragraphs as 'technical' or the like, to be skipped by > ordinary users. It would be good to see if anybody was using a @small* command for this. I don't this usage has ever been recommended. > I think it is a bad idea if texinfo shifts the responsibility for > setting up those 'small' things completely to the user. Whatever you > are planning for texinfo, you definitely should provide some useful > defaults to not lose this capability.
