From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable pitch mode line Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:35:47 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86lf0b6uf0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87zgosdbo1.fsf@gnus.org> <86mtkszhnq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87o858e5r2.fsf@gnu.org> <86fsqjcqd8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87zgor41oc.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6496"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 23 19:44:31 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n0T4o-0001Rs-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:44:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38642 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0T4k-0006y7-Ui for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0T0C-00058M-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from relay12.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.232]:41195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0T09-0007cT-Ea; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:39:43 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay12.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 49EB4200003; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:39:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zgor41oc.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:27:15 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.232; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay12.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283003 Archived-At: >> The only way to reliably support variable pitch in the Info reader >> is by using HTML output from Texinfo and rendering it with eww/shr. >> >> But the problem is that most GNU/Linux distributions still don't include >> Info manuals in the HTML format alongside with the Info format. >> Thus we are stuck with monospaced Info manuals forever. > > Well, not necessarily. If we started making HTML the preferred format > for the `C-h i' etc, then they'd probably follow after a while. And > it'd be fine for some manuals to be in HTML while other remain in INFO. Probably not before the standalone Info reader will support HTML. > But nobody's yet to make an info-html-minor mode (or a major mode a la > eww building upon shr), so it's still academic. It can't be a mode because some Info manuals are split among several files.