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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die |
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Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:08:39 +0100 |
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Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> It's just tedious stuff. I get back into it after 15-30 minutes but
> it's always a context switch.
Me too. But that's the case with any markup language I've been in touch
with. I forget what it's supposed to look like after a couple of
months, so I just cargo cult some markup from other sections, and I'm
off.
If I do something bad, like use @xref istead of @pxref, magical elves
suddenly appear and fix it.
Texinfo isn't any worse than other markup languages. All modern markup
languages have a really pretty way of generating the "Hello world"
document, but once you start in with the indexing and cross referencing
and and, it always turns complicated and ugly.
--
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- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, (continued)
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Steinar Bang, 2014/12/07
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Rasmus, 2014/12/07
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Christopher Allan Webber, 2014/12/05
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/12/05
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/05
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Phillip Lord, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, David Kastrup, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, David Kastrup, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, David Kastrup, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/09
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, David Kastrup, 2014/12/09