Re: Emacs setup assistants

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, address@hidden wrote:

    > Would the @ifassistant ... @end ifassistant tags I proposed work?  It
>     seems like they would create the least amount of trouble for existing
>     Texinfo documents and renderers, since they can just ignore those
>     tags.
> 
> They would probably give error messages for those two tags,
> and they would process (rather than ignore) the text between them.
> 
> The only way this can be feasible without waiting years is if it
> *completely avoids* any new Texinfo directives.

I'm OK with using anything, as long as I can get started on writing
the assistants soon.  Converting from one special tag to another
should be mechanically possible, eventually.

I like Eli's suggestion of @ignore tags.  Those give the maximum
flexibility.

Ted