Re: report with biggest nodes

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:07:02PM -0800, Karl Berry wrote:
> Patrice -- just a stray thought: how hard would it be to dump out a list
> of nodes sorted by the number of lines (or words) they contain?  Just
> an auxiliary output kind of like the crazy "internal links" file
> (although this could be controlled by a directive, no need for an option).
> 
> The idea is to identify the biggest nodes, which are likely to be the
> ones most in need of splitting up.  (I got to thinking about this as I
> was writing up #line and the description kept getting longer.)  
> 
> If it's at all troublesome, don't worry about it.  It's obviously easy
> enough to do with a separate utility.  But if it's trivial, I figured it
> could be built-in.

I may be overlooking something, but my first guess would be that it is 
trivial.  There is already some code that does things like that (arguably 
slightly more complicated) in 
 DebugTexinfo/DebugTree.pm
 DebugTexinfo/DebugCount.pm

-- 
Pat