Re: Is a texi2any upgrade still wanted, and what would it take?

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Personally, my dream would be to switch to a different documentation
> tool entirely, like Sphinx, which supports HTML, LaTeX and Texinfo
> output, with extensive HTML customization possibilities, and would
> not need so much build system fuss (lilypond-book etc.),

How do you imagine the LilyPond images to arrive in the documentation
without the "build system fuss"?  The bulk of the lilypond-book fuss is
about efficiently compiling ten thousands of small LilyPond fragments
without recompiling duplicates appearing in multiple translations.

> and supports internationalization via po files on top of that. But
> that is going to be controversial and the amount of work is magnitudes
> larger :)

The problem is that an advertised feature set is comparatively useless
for imagining the amount of work before arriving at a satisfactorily
smoothly operating and efficient solution.

It is not uncommon to have a proof of concept running within less than a
week, with a satisfactory efficient solution adding years of
development.

-- 
David Kastrup