On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 13:51:46 +0200, Pantxo Diribarne wrote:
* Do people think that this automation process is really worth,
Yes.
* Is it acceptable to do this with octave? If so, are there examples of
.txi files generated by octave scripts somewhere in the doc (I am
interested in Makefile.in rules examples)?
Absolutely.
One example is the contributors list, look for mkcontrib.awk in
doc/interpreter. If you can write a script to generate a texinfo
snippet, it can simply be @included where it should be placed in the
manual, this is exactly what is done for the contributors list.