On 5 Jan 2004, Reiner Steib<4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> verbalized:
> Hi,
>
> currently we have two places were new (user-visible) features are
> described:
>
> 1. The node (info "(gnus)New Features") in `texi/gnus.texi'
>
> 2. GNUS-NEWS (plain test file in outline mode).
>
> Is the intention that both places should contain (essentially) the
> same information?
>
> I think we should (and must) keep GNUS-NEWS for several reasons (e.g.
> for later inclusion in Emacs' NEWS file and to allow users to see
> what's new without installing the info manual).
>
> Shouldn't we declare one "master" and create the other automatically?
> (What I usually do is write an entry for `gnus.texi', Copy&Paste the
> formated info-output to GNUS-NEWS and adjust it slightly (line breaks,
> etc).  Creating the text version first and adding the markup later is
> very annoying, IMHO.)
>
> Maybe it would make sense to factor out the No Gnus node (i.e. the
> current version) to `gnus-news.texi', add "@include gnus-news.texi" in
> `gnus.texi' and convert `gnus-news.texi' to GNUS-NEWS automatically.
>
> Running »makeinfo --no-headers --paragraph-indent=0 --fill-column=83«
> on `gnus-news.texi' already gives acceptable output (see a quick test
> below).  Of course some modifications have to be done (by sed or in
> lisp).
>
> Opinions?

I do agree with that.

zeDek
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