Re: more consistent ignoring before node and sections and Top node

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:42:25AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > For plaintext, I propose to have two options
> > * book-like: format the text before the first @node or sectioning
> >   command, not necessarily the @titlepage, but at least determine
> >   some title.  Do not output the Top node.
> > * non book: do not output the text before the first @node or
> >   sectioning command. If there is @*content before the first @node or
> >   sectioning command, the table of content is is still output
> >   before the first node or sectioning command.  The change is that
> >   text before the first @node or sectioning command is not output.
> > Default is non book.
> 
> It doesn't matter very much as nobody uses plaintext output anyway.

I did the remaining, but not plaintext.  I do not think that it is worth
investing time on it and it is quite different from the other output
formats given how it is tied with Info.  I put in a TODO, but I do not
expect this to be done soon.

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Pat