Re: Mapping @author in docbook

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:42:05AM +0000, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> @author is not mapped anyhow to docbook, on makeinfo-6.6 --docbook x.texi, 
> and when converting texinfo→docbook→epub the
> result has “Unknown Author”.
> 
> Can you map somehow @author to the docbook output?
> 
> Docbook 5.0 reference for Author: https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/author.html 
> .

I do not remember why we did not handle @author, what I remember is that
there were some constraints on where and how it could happen.  Maybe
something changed between docbook 4.X et docbook 5.  <bookinfo> 
seems to have disappeared, 
https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/ch01.html#introduction-whats-new
and instead there is an <info> that replaces it. It seems that there are
less restrictions, for instance more than one <info> element per <book>
block, which would allow to output separately the <author> and
<legalnotice>.

Should we output docbook 5?

I checked rapidly, it seems that <ulink> is now <link> and that the
header should be different (though the documentation is very confusing
on that aspecct) but maybe we do not need more differences. 

-- 
Pat