\section[sept92-thoughts]{SEPT92 THOUGHTS} These are further ruminations, having had another year to watch how people do and do not use this system. \begin{description} %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[Death to `ribbons' and code re-ordering:] No-one uses it, and it's pretty clunky in this system, both conceptually and implementationally. %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[Suppressable `detail':] Be able to mark sections as `detail', as well as to be able to put \tr{\begin{detail}/\end{detail}} around arbitrary stuff. Obviously, you then want to format with/without the details in. %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[A minimally-extensible notation?] Texinfo now supports setting and testing of variables, and the using the values thereof. %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[Support ``all non-code is raw XXX'':] Something like: given a flag \tr{-r latex}, then all non-code would be taken to be pure \LaTeX{} and wouldn't be mangled {\em at all}. Another likely possibility: a \tr{-r verbatim}, to support the dubious \tr{verbatim} script that's popular in some circles. %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[Stop automagic indexing of code-in-text:] I'm not sure it's useful. %------------------------------------------------------------------ \item[Throw out tree-grabbing (\tr{-g } option):] Too hacky, not used, probably inadequate. \end{description}