\section[sept92-thoughts]{SEPT92 THOUGHTS}

These are further ruminations, having had another year to watch how
people do and do not use this system.

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\item[Death to `ribbons' and code re-ordering:]

No-one uses it, and it's pretty clunky in this system, both
conceptually and implementationally.

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\item[Suppressable `detail':]

Be able to mark sections as `detail', as well as to be able to put
\tr{\begin{detail}/\end{detail}} around arbitrary stuff.  Obviously,
you then want to format with/without the details in.

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\item[A minimally-extensible notation?]

Texinfo now supports setting and testing of variables, and the using
the values thereof.

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\item[Support ``all non-code is raw XXX'':]

Something like: given a flag \tr{-r latex}, then all non-code would be
taken to be pure \LaTeX{} and wouldn't be mangled {\em at all}.

Another likely possibility: a \tr{-r verbatim}, to support the dubious
\tr{verbatim} script that's popular in some circles.

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\item[Stop automagic indexing of code-in-text:]

I'm not sure it's useful.

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\item[Throw out tree-grabbing (\tr{-g <node>} option):]

Too hacky, not used, probably inadequate.

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