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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:36:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1qxizd8.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgbe0yga.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:33:09 -0500")

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

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-17  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-17  5:33 ox-texinfo: use an Org section as Info Top node Jonas Bernoulli
2018-06-17  8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2018-06-18 20:42   ` Jonas Bernoulli

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