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Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info


From: Per Bothner
Subject: Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:28:39 -0800
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On 11/24/2016 12:16 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 23 November 2016 at 19:33, Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote:
I've talked before about getting rid of the info format.
I've written up a draft roadmap / plan of action with more details:

http://per.bothner.com/blog/2016/texinfo-roadmap/

Its weakness is the “info” file format

Why is that a weakness? Surely people can ignore the "info" file
format if they want to and focus on the HTML, DocBook and/or printed
(TeX) output?

I added a "Problems with info" section that I hope answers these questions.

There are some projects that you mention that could be useful. They
could be undertaken on their own and produce something useful:

* modify texi2any to have an option to output HTML5

Yes, I think that is a desirable step.  But in my opinion:  just "HTML5"
is not enough - it would be clean well-structured html5.  The current --html
output is not.

* create a HTML documentation reader in JavaScript with advanced features

* work on distribution or installation of HTML files. for example,
this could be done by a GNU/Linux distribution that wants to make HTML
documentation available.

I would also add, as a needed, independent project:
* Change the standalone info program to a wrapper around 'emacs -nw'.
--
        --Per Bothner
address@hidden   http://per.bothner.com/



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