> Cc: <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>
> From: "Carlos Maniero" <car...@maniero.me>
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:42:24 +0000 (UTC)
>
> > We could also have placeholders for
> > command-line arguments, e.g. "(SOMETHING %i %o)" means invoke
> > SOMETHING with a single command-line argument where %i is substituted
> > by the name of a file with the code to be highlighted ("input") and %o
> > with the name of the file to write the results ("output").
>
> Makes sense to me. It is way better than adding a new var. Should we use
> %i and %o or something more verbose like %INPUT and %OUTPUT?
>
> There is another point that is good to mention: If *HIGHLIGHT_SYNTAX*
> is set to anything other than "highlight" or "pygments" it defaults to
> *source-highlight*. So, if the user set "./myscript.pl" as
> *HIGHLIGHT_SYNTAX* without the placeholders the tex2any script will
> perform the highlight using the *source-highlight*. Which may confuse
> users. Since this is an experimental feature, we could introduce a
> breaking change and always expect for a command to be provided in order
> to simplify the implementation and remove this ambiguity. But IDK what
> is the project polices over breaking changes.
>
> I'll be glad to send a v2 with these changes once we clarify these
> points.
Thanks, let's wait for Patrice and Gavin to chime in and provide their
view on this. I'm not the official maintainer of the Texinfo package,
so those were just my opinions.
