Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) () Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:01:34 GMT Breaking @cartouche over pages is TeXnically possible. So is supporting background colors for @example / @verbatim. It's just that I personally am never going to work on either one -- way too much effort for way

Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:40:31AM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: () k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) () Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:01:34 GMT Another approach is to define a syntax to associate key/value pairs w/ any particular environment. This could map to ‘class’ attributes for HTML output,

Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Jason Massey
With respect, Masters: I would like to comment on Mr. Nguyen's remarks. (Bear with me a moment.) I have produced a handful of in-depth manuals at my job (I'm an Oracle/UNIX administrator for a large hospital network) -- a few using Texinfo, a few with DocBook. Over the past 12-18 months I have

Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Jason Massey janixs...@gmail.com () Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:48:58 -0400 [the horror the horror] Yeah, XML is suboptimal. SXML is slightly better, but still rotten. *So, I guess what I am saying is that I hope that Texinfo does not meander into XML-verbosity.* Actually, I'm begging that

Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:07:47PM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: The sooner makeinfo supports uniform pass-through specification, the sooner it can remove itself from the style-wishlist treadmill. Aren't the @inlineraw, and @html... commands enough to pass-through whatever you want? -- Pat

Re: [help-texinfo] Changing background color of the 'verbatim' environment

2012-09-13 Thread Karl Berry
The sooner makeinfo supports uniform pass-through specification, the sooner it can remove itself from the style-wishlist treadmill. Texinfo has never been on that treadmill and never will be, because it is not and never will be a goal to support output in any conceivable