Re: Programming Texinfo?

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From: Damian Cugley
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 09:34

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Ajay Shah <ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu> <kv4mifINNiiv@alhena.usc.edu>

> I just finished uploading the Texinfo manual and it seems to be pretty
> far from TeX in look and feel.  I was surprised to see no mention in
> the manual of how new Texinfo commands may be written in terms of
> existing ones.  

Texinfo is not intended to be extensible, since it is hard enough
already to ensure that a given texinfo file is interpreted in equivalent
ways by all the different programs that use Texinfo.  This is sad when
useful bits of notation have been omitted from the Texinfo format (e.g.,
the METAFONT and LaTeX logos), but can't be helped.

Damian

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