Re: splitting ASCII output?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 03:47:18PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Patrice,
> 
> I had the idea today that it could be useful for makeinfo to be able to
> split ASCII output.  On occasion, people want to distribute plain text
> sections from their Texinfo manuals, e.g., README or INSTALL
> information.  Not surprisingly, just setting 'split'=>1 in
> the plaintext element of %formats_table did not suffice :).  So then I
> figured I'd ask.

Indeed, the output function of Plaintext doesn't allow to split as it is
now.  More to the point, the generic code only allows for outputting to a 
file.  I think that the best would be to do something generic similar
with what is done for HTML.  Does it looks good?

-- 
Pat