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: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 10:30:21 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? 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X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:179123 Archived-At: Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Eric S. Raymond writes: > >> Karl Fogel : >>> Actually, I think that might be *more* important than the exact choice >>> of markup language. I hope we don't bikeshed.com the choice of markup >>> language to death. ${ANYTHING_STANDARD_OR_ORG} is fine by me. >> >> Agreed. I may have given the impression that I'm more attached to >> asciidoc per se than I am. It would be my first choice, but a reasoned >> case could be made for a couple of the others. > > Okay, sorry also that I may be responding to that a bit more than > anything. Getting GNU's web documentation improved is an important > issue to me, and I really do want this to happen. > > I do agree that the importance of good web documentation is more > important than info support, and if somehow we got tossed into the fork > of needing to pick one or the other, I think nice looking web > documentation is more important to the long-term health of GNU. So tell me what you consider wrong with the Texinfo-generated web documentation of GNU LilyPond, arbitrary stuff like . What parts of the documentation are "not nice looking" to a degree that would be bad for LilyPond's long-term health? I might add that we have several translations of all the web pages and manuals which are tightly maintained (and some that are basically in some left-behind state, not because of the amount of work Texinfo presents since translators do not even need to touch the Texinfo parts and, in contrast to some magic-cookie markup system like AsciiDoc are not likely to break stuff just by copying things) but rather the amount of work a good translation actually is. Most of our translators (and documentation-focused developers) come from a Windows background and/or do not contribute significantly to code. And that's certainly less technically inclined than the demographic expected to write Emacs manuals. -- David Kastrup