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Re: report with biggest nodes


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: report with biggest nodes
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:32:55 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:23:08PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> I had been imagining something else: that we would simply silently
> accept the deficient manuals and correct the problems on the fly, so
> that authors never have to think about it.  That's what I was having
> problems with.

That would be a possible use of the automatic node/menu generation,
but certainly not turned on in the default case (a customization variable,
certainly).

>     pod2texi translator (did I announce that I did that translator?)
> 
> No.  That is great news!  Does it work with, e.g., the base perl pods?
> Or the parallel.pod from GNU Parallel?
> Is it checked in?  If so, I guess I missed it.

No, it is not, I am preparing a mail about it.

>     automatic node/menu generation, I have to add anchors like
>       @section My section
>       @anchor{My section}
> 
> I don't understand, why not @node My section?  But whatever works, I'm
> sure you did what is needful.

Sine there is no automatic menu entry generation, the resulting manual is 
incorrect!

-- 
Pat



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