From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David A. Cobb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.design Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:23:00 -0400 Organization: CoxNet User Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D753644.5070604@cox.net> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031091826 22403 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 22:23:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mM5H-0005p1-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17mMeB-0003Lc-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:59:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mM6l-000577-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mM4w-000500-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mM4t-0004zO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net ([68.1.17.242]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mM4t-0004zE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from cox.net ([68.14.72.20]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020903222319.OYI16428.lakemtao03.cox.net@cox.net>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:23:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7405 gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7405 Robert J. Chassell wrote: > >Sure. But we can't require Info pages, especially as rms has > >pronounced against it. > > > Ugh! What's the 'in' thing now? Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info? > >The GNU Project centered on Texinfo, which is a markup language that >enables you to generate from a single source file, output files for: > > Info for efficient online help > > DVI (or PostScript or PDF or ...) for nicely typeset, hard > copy printing > > HTML for Web pages > > DocBook for DocBook > > Plain text for those who want that. > >Please, do not write an Info file; write a Texinfo file instead. > Yeah, I pretty much knew that. But I think you're talking about the difference between what an author writes and what we distribute. I agree, the contribtor guides should explicitly show how to build the documentation, what templates, etc. [like @copying] So, yes, I was unclear. Small parity error in cerebrum. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .