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: Alternative input formats Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87wq66ufyt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tx18vl0v.fsf@dod.no> <87iohnvh3m.fsf@dod.no> <877fy3lmm4.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <877fy3vcw4.fsf@dod.no> <87bnnab6je.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418402571 20417 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 16:42:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 17:42:46 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 1XzTIk-0004S1-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTIk-0005jg-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTI0-0004bn-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHz-00014f-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHz-00014Z-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTHy-0002Dt-NA; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:41:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bnnab6je.fsf@gnu.org> (ludo@gnu.org) 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:179941 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. ]]] > But HTML itself lacks the notion of indexes or cross-manual references, > for instance (cross-manual references must work both with on-line copies > and with locally installed manuals.) It is true that these concepts as such do not appear in the specs of HTML. But there are ways to deal with that. For instance, we could define a particular structure of HTML code to represent the index of a manual. As for cross-manual references, can't we represent them as links? -- 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.