From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: A Suggestion.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:05:12 -0500
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:
> > 		i have a small suggestion for the consideration of this 
> > group: would it be possible to include the texinfo sources of the 
> I'm not sure if this is a good idea.  It will certainly make the
> binary zips larger (.texi files tend to be large), and thus punish the

Please no!)

> If you don't mind the quality of the printed docs, you could run a
> filter program on the .info files to remove the node markers, and then
> print the ASCII text that's left.

Actually, those node markers came in quite handy for me, I used them as
breakpoints:  Find node-marker-chr, delete line following, find first none
blank line thereafter, apply index-formatting-code, continue processing.