Re: Broken link at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:47:54PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I'd be happy if texi2html completely replaced makeinfo, 
> 
> Well, in terms of functionality I suppose it could theoretically replace
> makeinfo --html, at least.  However, my biggest technical concern with

I think that it could also easily replace all the xml based formats
with very little work. For info output it would certainly require 
more work, since there are some specificities (like arranging
paragraphs, and doing the ref tables).

Adding a tex or latex backend would certainly be also very easy. I had a
LaTeX backend in project for a long time and I made all the @-commands
available in the backends for that, but I never took the time to
implement it, and in fact I am not good enough in LaTeX to really do 
it.

>     Are you sure it's a good idea to drop these features?
> 
> Clearly they must not be dropped now.  If we had the luxury of starting
> over, many things would be done differently.

Sorry, I mistaken with another thing, which is curently unsupported in
makeinfo/texi2dvi, like

@samp{
@table @emph
@item line
text
@end table
}

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Pat