From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex] Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:51:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hcpncmoz.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200706030000.l5300AV09602@f7.net> <87r6osissn.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181002377 30751 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2007 00:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 02:12:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvMfN-0005oV-0F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:12:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfM-0006eW-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfB-0006RB-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfA-0006Qn-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfA-0006Qa-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvMf8-0002pq-Lc; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvMf1-000HAY-0h; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:12:33 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 04 Jun 2007 01\:01\:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1116 [June 04 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72243 Archived-At: > `makeinfo --html' already generates output that any browser can display. > What is missing in HTML output are Info-specific semantical elements, > like references to next and previous nodes, menu items grouped to menus, > index items that can be easily extracted. > > Can we figure out a way to include that in HTML, > so that we solve this problem without losing the ability to display > in an ordinary browser? Including them in HTML is easy by using HTML semantical markup (elements "div", attributes "class", etc.) But the most trouble I expect from displaying HTML in Emacs. There was one unsuccessful project that implements a HTML browser in Emacs - w3. Its failure causes doubts about expediency of using HTML in the Emacs Info browser. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/