Re: Agenda for next Texinfo release

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:46:20PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 12:36:28PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > The main area of work that I can see before the next Texinfo release is
> > made is compatibility of the XS parser with the Perl parser.
> > 
> > I have started some work on testing manuals and automatically looking
> > for differences in the output, but need to do more on this.  Basically,
> > I have a short shell script with a loop in it like this:
> > 
> > for m in $manuals; do
> >   x=X/`basename $m`.info
> >   p=P/`basename $m`.info
> >   TEXINFO_XS=require texi2any $m -o $x --no-split
> >   TEXINFO_XS=omit texi2any $m -o $p --no-split
> >   diff $x $p
> > done
> > 
> > I also need to document that @example can take an argument.
> 
> Is the design of that decided?  I would still be in favor of
> * having arguments separated by comma ,
> * giving a meaning to the first argument (the language) and the 
>   second (small or not for compatibilities with @smallexample and 
>   others).

Implemented and documented now.