Re: [help-texinfo] Fwd: Texinfo questions

[Karl Berry]

    >I use Texinfo since 10 years, writing docs like this (1).

Very nice.

    Is it possible to split a cartouche across pages?

No, and it won't be.  The way @cartouche is implemented it would be a
drastic amount of work to allow page breaks.  Hardly seems worth it.

    >I'm dreaming to have something like "@sourcenumbered [name]" :

It's been a desired feature for a long time, but never implemented.
(Partly because there was never an explicit request for it before.)

    My suggestion was to @input an automatically generated file with the
    line numbers added. 

Yes, I agree.

    I thought it would be possible to add the line numbers with TeX, but
    that wouldn't help with the other output formats. If TeX could run
    and use the output from an external program that would be another
    option, although I doubt that is a feature.

pdfTeX/LuaTeX can read from pipes when the first character of the \input
or \openin is |.  (When \write18 is enabled.)  As you say, it won't help
with other formats.

    >Is there a [...] macros collections for Texinfo on the web ?

No.  It wouldn't make sense, since Texinfo does not have any equivalent
of style files (by design).

k