Re: Variable pitch mode line

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Thu 23 Dec 2021 at 13:00, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 2021, at 12:56 PM, Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> wrote:
>> On Thu 23 Dec 2021 at 12:51, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I’ve tried that. Info files are not complex, but they can’t be
>>> reliably parsed 100% of the time. My code works for like 95% of the
>>> nodes, but there are always some corner cases where it breaks.
>> 
>> Why doesn't texinfo html output suffer from this problem?
>
> HTML are structured, where as Info is more like plain text. Just to
> give an example, in an info file, four spaces indent text could be a
> code block, or just an indented paragraph, there is no way telling
> them apart. In HTML, code is wrapped in <code> (or maybe <pre>),
> paragraphs are wrapped in <p>.

Sorry for not being clearer.
The question is not about the difference between info and html.

The question is: why does your info to html conversion attempt work in
95% cases but textinfos info to html conversion work in 100% cases?