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Re: Compressed info files


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Compressed info files
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:27:09 +0100

Hi Gavin!

> Le 9 mars 2015 à 19:10, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> I expect the cross-reference to info-stnd.info is easily missed. Some
> of this could be slimmed down, for example, there are two "summary
> paragraphs" (beginning "The GNU Project distributes..." and "This file
> describes..."). Saying which readers support a mouse doesn't belong
> here. The paragraph saying how to get to the tutorial ("type 'h'")
> should be enough; once somebody has done that they shouldn't need to
> be told how to press "n" twice to get to a certain node.

How about doing something like what Wikipedia does when
there are synonyms, and _start_ by spelling out that this
is not the documentation of the info reader, and immediately
point to it?


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