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Re: Unadorned cross-references


From: Augusto Stoffel
Subject: Re: Unadorned cross-references
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:53:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

On Tue,  1 Jun 2021 at 11:38, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:

> On 6/1/21 5:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> If we are after an Emacs-only solution,
>
> If we want an Emacs-only solution, why not use eww-mode on an HTML file?
> It works tolerably well - try: M-x eww ENTER https://domterm.org ENTER
> Viola - you're browsing a texinfo manual with rich text and images.

Sure, this is possible.  In fact, I made a package for this:
http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/devdocs.html

However, generating HTML files that look okay on anything other than a
full-fledged browser is much harder than converting some documentation
source to info with Pandoc, Sphinx or the like.  And how do you grep
through a bunch of HTML files, by the way?

Annoyingly, there's one single reason why converting random documents to
info doesn't work well in practice, and that is the implied "see" on
every cross-reference.  Given the very strong desire to keep this
limitation of the info markup, I'm afraid there's nothing to be done.



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