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Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
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Karl Berry |
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Re: terminal escapes in Info files? |
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Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:26:10 -0500 |
> if we want to add font markup to info fmt, let's not use something as
> ugly as terminal escape squences. please design something clean!
Since Info is inherently limited to what can be displayed on a terminal,
it seems like ANSI escape sequences are as reasonable specification of
the capabilities as anything else? Easy to implement, too. Admittedly
the ESC [ blah blah sequences are ugly, though.
How about using what Enriched-Text mode uses in Emacs? See
etc/enriched.doc in the Emacs distro.
That is indeed a lot cleaner (also quite a bit more verbose :). Thanks
for mentioning it, I wasn't aware of it.
It seems using this would imply a new non-backward-compatible output
format, though, since every literal < needs to be escaped in enriched
format, and existing info readers don't know how to do that.
Using the ugly terminal escape sequences, on the other hand, is
backward-compatible because I'm sure that no real document has literal
terminal escape sequences (Texinfo hasn't had @ctrl for years ...).
Hmm. As always, it seems there is no easy answer.
Thanks,
k
- terminal escapes in Info files?, Karl Berry, 2003/10/26
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Alper Ersoy, 2003/10/28
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/28
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, David Kastrup, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, David Kastrup, 2003/10/29
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/10/30
- Re: terminal escapes in Info files?, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/30