On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 02:27:05PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > It would be good in my opinion to get rid of the @vskip line as it > > looks ugly and confusing and probably turns people off. > > I think this calls for some research: how many manuals do NOT use the > standard @vskip line, and if there are any, why do they omit it? > > If all of them use @vskip, we could just make that the default, and > wait for feature requests before implementing something that > countermands what @vskip did.
I'm currently looking through Texinfo manuals to get an idea of the variety of title pages and copyright pages. I may not have been clear, I meant that the @vskip line is ugly in the Texinfo sources. I wasn't talking about the formatting of the resulting PDF or DVI file. I had intended to still push the copying and publication information down to the bottom of the page. There is always the possibility for user to countermand this by using their own explicit formatting in @titlepage rather than our new commands (and I suspect if a real book was being published on paper using Texinfo, the publisher would likely want to design espcially those two pages specially using different software - all we are providing is a serviceable default).
