Re: Change the recommended first line? (was: texinfo should support Emacs coding specifier)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:07:56 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden>, Texinfo <address@hidden>
> 
> Do you know whether the lines
> 
> @c %**start of header
> 
> and
> 
> @c %**end of header
> 
> are still useful for anyone? The manual says
> 
> The @code{@@c ...header} lines above which surround the
> @code{@@setfilename} and @code{@@settitle} lines allow you to process,
> within Emacs, just part of the Texinfo source.  (@xref{Start of
> Header}.)
> 
> but I've never really understood what this means.

These lines are still useful if one uses the commands in texinfmt.el
to process a Texinfo source.  However, those commands are most
probably never used any longer, since they fell behind in supporting
the new language features years ago.