Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents.

[Nic Ferrier]

Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:

> Nic Ferrier wrote:
> 
> > It's an additional format to solve the specific problem of reading
> > documentation that you don't happen to have on your local machine.
> 
> Why can't ange-ftp, tramp, or http-get be used to retrieve remote Info
> files for local browsing within Emacs?

Because it would take a lot of work to alter the info reader to make
that happen.

And users would then be tied to emacs for doing it... The current
proposal offers at least as much flexibility as current Info
publishing systems:

- it will be available to browsers
- it will therefore be available to emacs
- it will also therefore be available on the console (links)


Nic