On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 4:09 AM Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> The glibc manual tags definitions like > Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Safe | AC-Safe fd | See POSIX Safety Concepts. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Allocation.html Yeah, it has that flavor, although an important feature is to be able to follow a link to get to a list of all items which have been tagged (all MT-Safe, all AS-Safe, etc.) > Supporting this officially might make it easier to have tags formatted > differently. I like the name "tag" better than "category" as a > definition might have more than one. Yeah, Texinfo already has a "category" concept which is different, so it probably needs to be changed. "Tags" is a good choice, since that term is used pretty widely for this idea. > It might be easier to implement this using the internal data structure > that represents the document rather than via modifying an external > format (XML) which then has to be read back into the program faithfully. > Patrice discussed this in his emails. It depends on how much you are > willing to make sense of texi2any internals. Yeah, the internal Perl structure is a possible way to do it. However, I glanced at the structure for the document I'm working on, and it seemed quite a bit more complex than the document itself. Maybe I should take a second look. All the best, Robert
