proof-of-concept documentation category system

Robert Dodier writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I've attempted to paste together a documentation category system for Texinfo.
> I did that because there is not yet an existing category system sfaik.
> 
> Here is some example output. The list of categories is near the end of
> this page.
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/misc/tmp-categories-html/tmp-target_toc.html
> 
> Categories are indicated in .texi files by @category tags which
> are expanded into @ref tags by texi2html. A separate program
> searches for @category tags and constructs a @node which
> @ref's all the functions and variables which contain the @category.
> The process is not completely automated at this point.
> 
> The whole thing is still kind of ugly but it's a start.
> 

I like the concept and think that it is "must have"
new feature to next releases of Maxima manual but
exact list of valid categories requires serious
consideration.  Are categories one-level object
or we can have categories with subcategories etc?


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