From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
julius.pfrommer@kit.edu
Subject: Re: Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:12:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pow37xyz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh6r6r8r.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:23:16 +0100)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:23:16 +0100
> Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, Julius Pfrommer <julius.pfrommer@kit.edu>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 2016-02-11, at 19:17, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > Somebody already wrote a tool that converts the GCC texinfo
> > > documentation to rst (restructured text), that can then be fed into
> > > Sphinx:
> > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-11/msg01030.html
> >
> > Would people look at the results
> > and see if it has the features we would like to have
> > in HTML intended to replace the Info format?
>
> I thought the general consensus was that we would _not_ like to replace
> the Info format...
No, you misunderstood. We don't want to replace Texinfo as the source
language, but having an HTML-based documentation reader that is
otherwise as capable as the Info readers we have is definitely a
desirable direction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-11 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-10 11:18 Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation Julius Pfrommer
2016-02-11 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-11 18:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-11 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-12 12:34 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-07 23:19 John Wiegley
2016-02-08 2:49 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-08 2:55 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-08 8:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-02-08 13:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 13:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 16:00 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-08 16:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 16:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 16:55 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-08 16:54 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-09 12:13 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 13:16 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 14:34 ` Andreas Schwab
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