> No, it's not used to generate the manual. It's used to generate > guile-procedures.txt, which is consulted by 'object-documentation'. > > I agree that the current state of docstring handling leaves much to be > desired. Maybe we should start a discussion on guile-devel about how > the improve things.
I once asked the question if it would be possible to create a version of scm_c_define_gsubr that took a docstring. The opinion at the time was that it would be difficult. -Mike