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Re: INFO on add-ons
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:49:25 -0400 |
> Miles> I know that originally (in the days of the original emacs)
> Miles> there actually were info files, but texinfo hadn't been
> Miles> invented yet; how did people write info files then (by
> Miles> hand?!)?
>
> Been there, done that. Texinfo is not an improvement, if restricted
> to generating Info files.
Huh?!? What kind of wacky Emacs macros did you have to maintain indices
and to ensure a consistent style when editing Info files ?
> (Obviously the retargetable backend is a
> _huge_ improvement, and I wouldn't go back, although I'd like to go
> forward from Texinfo to XMLinfo.)
What's so great about <kindex key="C-x k"/> compared to @kindex C-x k ?
What's so great about <sample>foobar</sample> compared to @sample{foobar} ?
XML has its advantages, but for a *source* format, it's just way too
cumbersome/verbose, unless you use an editor that hides the markup,
but then what would such an editor look like ?
If you say WYSIWYG, you know that it is very difficult to reconcile
with the purpose of TeXinfo which is to concentrate on the intent
and allow many *different* output formats.
Stefan
- Re: INFO on add-ons, (continued)
- 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
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Ville Skyttä, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons,
Stefan Monnier <=
- 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, Miles Bader, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/05