From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> <20141206061019.GC14890@thyrsus.com> <83ppbx1aag.fsf@gnu.org> <20141206110310.GE19750@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417944042 29208 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 09:20:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cwebber@dustycloud.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 10:20:35 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 1XxY11-00062n-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 10:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxY11-0005xY-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxY0s-0005uL-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxY0r-00072U-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxY0r-00072F-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxY0p-0000Ka-E0; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:20:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <20141206110310.GE19750@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) 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:179243 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > And also because the index-searching commands, without which you are > > lost in a large manual, don't exist in the Web browsers out there. > This is not at *all* hard to solve. I have written HTML generators > that produce index links myself in different contexts. With Texinfo, we specify which items to index in each node or place, with commands such as @cindex and @findex and @vindex. When you talking about "produce index links", what does that mean concretely? What input in asciidoc would control the index? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.