Re: Broken link at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

[John Mandereau]

On 2008/07/08 09:32 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:35:42AM +0200, John Mandereau wrote:
> 
> > 1) clearly separating parsing from formatting,
> > 2) using GUILE to store parsed Texinfo input, so one can write Scheme
> > code to play with this input,
> > 3) making HTML output completely customizable (like texi2html), using
> > GUILE (like LilyPond),
> 
> In case it wasn't clear, texi2html does the 3 items (except that the
> tree is not a GUILE tree, but a tree of perl references).

I'd be happy if texi2html completely replaced makeinfo, except that
using an interpreted language in all 3 steps makes it run significantly
slower, hence my starting effort to write an implementation with a
parser written in a compiled language.


> If you want to have a look at how things are done in texi2html, there
> are 2 things that I think should be dropped from a texinfo converter, 
> namely the index splitting, and the possibility to have things like
> 
> @emph{Bla.
> 
> New paragraph.} 

Are you sure it's a good idea to drop these features?


> I am the main and most of the time only author of the code that does the 
> parsing of texinfo (though not necessarily the regexp), and I can put
> any piece of my code in the public domain if you want to reuse/translate 
> it.

Thank you :-) I haven't read texi2html code in detail, but this probably
helps.

Best,
John