Re: Texinfo, Free Beer

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

Hi,

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On Saturday, August 6th, 2022 at 3:30 PM, jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:


> Hi Guixers,
>
> wdyt of having some modern TLDR entry in the cookbook for getting Guix 
> neophytes up to par with texinfo?
>
> Since texinfo is the defacto markup for the GNU Guix project and we're not 
> likely to change it any time soon,
> I was think we could have some distilled/TLDR docs for users who mostly write 
> and consume markdown.
>
> I was thinking something along the lines of what chicken has for rubyists or 
> pythonistas:
>
> https://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-ruby-programmers
> https://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-python-programmers
>
> "Texinfo for MDs"
>
> roptat started a TLDR Texinfo guide on the learnxinyminutes series*.
>
> Should we just improve on roptat's guide and link it in a Guix doc somewhere 
> so
> that it is more discoverable or integrate/fork it or similar into our docs?
>
> Same way we have a Scheme crash course, we can have a Texinfo crash course?


I could use that!