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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Indentation conventions for Info manuals; recognizing code
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:07:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ft15sprn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XWS=0=9RcN2kf=-eupxccyo7OzUZtZhOBJOXJC7Z-O3Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:49:32 +0700)

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:49:32 +0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> You *want* nice variable-pitch text in Info, so you *ask for* a way to
> distinguish code from body text in the Info output format, but what
> you really *need* is the HTML output and a convenient browser for
> that.

Yes, I believe the right direction to having a better styled display
of manuals is to begin with the HTML output.  The Texinfo developers
are actually moving in that direction: to make the HTML output more
functional, so that it doesn't miss the important advantages of Info.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-08 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-07  1:58 Indentation conventions for Info manuals; recognizing code Drew Adams
2021-03-07  6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08  3:47   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-08  5:49     ` Yuri Khan
2021-03-08 14:07       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-08 15:33       ` Drew Adams
2021-03-08  5:37 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-08 13:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 15:33   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-08  9:51 tydrdn
2021-03-08 15:33 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-26  5:12   ` scame

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