* ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node
@ 2018-06-17 5:33 Jonas Bernoulli
2018-06-17 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2018-06-17 5:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
Congratulation on converting the Org manual to Org! (I haven't really
gotten around to adjusting magit.org and my other manuals yet though.)
Anyway, I have an only marginally related feature request:
Currently ox-texinfo uses the text before the first Org section as the
"Top" Info node. That is fine for manuals like org-manual.org where
that part of the document only consists of a few lines. In my manuals
there are up to 40 lines before the first heading, which makes it
desirable to make that part of the document collapsible.
As a side-note, the reasons why I put more than just
> #+title: The Org Manual
>
> #+texinfo: @insertcopying
at the beginning of the file is that (1) I like to set the variables
there, and (2) I put more information into the Info "Top" node (which is
not included in the pdf export) than what I would like to be displayed
on the copyright page when exporting to pdf. The latter should only
display the copyright information, while I want the former to display
e.g.:
> Borg User Manual
>
> The Borg assimilate Emacs packages as Git submodules. Borg is a
> bare-bones package manager for Emacs packages.
>
> This manual is for Borg version 2.0.0 (v2.0.0-59-g89a9394+1).
>
> Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
> ...
It is already possible to set the section whose content is to be used
on the copyright page (and which can be inserted elsewhere using
"#+texinfo: @insertcopying") using the COPYING property.
Could you please implement something similar for the "Top" node, using
a property such as TOP?
Cheers,
Jonas
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* Re: ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node
2018-06-17 5:33 ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node Jonas Bernoulli
@ 2018-06-17 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-06-18 20:42 ` Jonas Bernoulli
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2018-06-17 8:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonas Bernoulli; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
> Currently ox-texinfo uses the text before the first Org section as the
> "Top" Info node. That is fine for manuals like org-manual.org where
> that part of the document only consists of a few lines. In my manuals
> there are up to 40 lines before the first heading, which makes it
> desirable to make that part of the document collapsible.
You can use a drawer for that:
:PREAMBLE:
...
:END:
> It is already possible to set the section whose content is to be used
> on the copyright page (and which can be inserted elsewhere using
> "#+texinfo: @insertcopying") using the COPYING property.
>
> Could you please implement something similar for the "Top" node, using
> a property such as TOP?
This sounds awkward, e.g., what would become the text before the first
heading? AFAIU, there no really need for it, isn't it?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node
2018-06-17 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2018-06-18 20:42 ` Jonas Bernoulli
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2018-06-18 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Goaziou; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
>> Currently ox-texinfo uses the text before the first Org section as the
>> "Top" Info node. That is fine for manuals like org-manual.org where
>> that part of the document only consists of a few lines. In my manuals
>> there are up to 40 lines before the first heading, which makes it
>> desirable to make that part of the document collapsible.
>
> You can use a drawer for that:
>
> :PREAMBLE:
> ...
> :END:
That works for me.
>> It is already possible to set the section whose content is to be used
>> on the copyright page (and which can be inserted elsewhere using
>> "#+texinfo: @insertcopying") using the COPYING property.
>>
>> Could you please implement something similar for the "Top" node, using
>> a property such as TOP?
>
> This sounds awkward, e.g., what would become the text before the first
> heading?
I guess it could either be ignored or prepended to the text from the TOP
section.
> AFAIU, there no really need for it, isn't it?
I didn't know about the PREAMBLE thing. Now that I do, I don't need
anything else.
Thanks for your help
Jonas
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