Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents.

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>    Indeed, I was wrong: even a remote Info file accessed via ange-ftp
>    can be searched incrementally.
> 
> Are you sure it does this efficiently -- that is to say, will I be
> able to navigate through a complete `Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' in
> less than 17 seconds, or will it take me 17 minutes before my
> `Info-search' expression has got to the last node?


17 minutes to download 711 KB?  The uncompressed Info files in the
21-2.8 Emacs Lisp Reference Manual are 2,462,047 bytes; they gzip down
to 728,336 bytes.  So I think you could download, gunzip, and search
the whole thing in a reasonable amount of time.


> My understanding is that ange-ftp/tramp downloads the file or files to
> the client machine and the search is done by the client.


Correct.


>    If the goal is to make documentation available for web browsers,
>    makeinfo --html already does that.  Right?
> 
> No, `makeinfo --html' does a poor job; you cannot move around a
> document well.

Well, that's a different problem.  First make sure it's generating the

best possible HTML, then worry about extending the markup language.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers