Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:41:41 +0200 (EET)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:
> >
> > > Another solution to problem (a) is to get mkdoc to do the hard work. mkdoc
> > > could generate a file containing all the -I options.
> >
> > Why not simply have mkdoc do the inclusion itself?
[snip]
> It just seems like overkill to have mkdoc do all this stuff, when texinfo
> already has @include.

Overkill it may be, but I really think that mkdoc would be more
complicated if it had to output another file to pass to texinfo,
compared to the case where mkdoc puts everything it processes into a
single file.

> It sounds like you want mkdoc to become a much more
> feature-full pre-processor.

Yes, that's more or less right.  (Though I think I'll finish the
stack-checking thing first.)

> If that's the case, why don't we split mkdoc into
> two: a program to find all .txh and some m4 macros to do the pre-processing?

If that were feasible, we could just use findutils to find the files. :-)

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/