From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:19:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87tx0u9m1j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87k321jj4e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54876F7F.9000607@cs.ucla.edu> <87y4qfj2u9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54889A57.5060905@cs.ucla.edu> <87vbljb9f4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <54889F6D.6060408@cs.ucla.edu> <87r3w7b83a.fsf@wanadoo.es> <5488C710.3000209@cs.ucla.edu> <871to7ayv9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <5488DC0C.2070402@cs.ucla.edu> <837fxyt78a.fsf@gnu.org> <87iohiujcy.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> <8761dg1ykk.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> <87388jz1ss.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> <87siggx0g6.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> <87ppbi17q6.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418840373 1881 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 18:19:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 19:19:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JC2-0004a5-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:19:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JC2-00049X-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JBy-00049O-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JBx-0005fo-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JBx-0005fk-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50709 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1JBw-0003Mk-TE; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84204DF30F; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:19:20 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87ppbi17q6.fsf@Gertrud.fritz.box> (Achim Gratz's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:55:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180241 Archived-At: Achim Gratz writes: > Besides, I don't really think that this suggestion fulfills the goal > of having easily discernible semantic markup. It's deeply magical, > awkward to type in some keyboard layouts and hard to read in a variety > of fonts. I guess that a lot of contributors would simply cargo-cult > this markup into the documentation without ever knowing what they are > doing. That's likely happening with Texinfo as well, but at least the names are somewhat descriptive. -- David Kastrup