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Re: INFO on add-ons
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:23:43 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
Miles> [Texinfo is n]ot an improvement over what? Writing info
Miles> files by hand? It seems an enormous improvement over that.
Who wrote them by hand? There was a mode, of course, probably still
is, buried in the info handling code somewhere. It was close to
WYSIWYG, and given the limited expressiveness of TTYs, only a few
easily remembered "markup" forms.
>> I wouldn't go back, although I'd like to go forward from
>> Texinfo to XMLinfo.
Miles> Why? SGML and XML are quite unreadable compared to
Miles> texinfo.
In a buzzword, Document Object Model. I don't read texinfo, I read
Info. And I don't want to write or edit texinfo, I want to move
hierarchical objects around (I'm mostly a manager, not a programmer;
ie, with docs, I edit and compile, not write).
Miles> Would you like fries with that?
No, I'll have onion rings. ;)
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- Re: INFO on add-ons, (continued)
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/02
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/03
- Re: INFO on add-ons,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Ville Skyttä, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/06
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/06
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06