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: HTML-Info design Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9wqimf0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4q1fekv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fvc858c6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioh4nf8k.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83y4pzptpx.fsf@gnu.org> <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbl2bblc.fsf@fencepost.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 1419414975 22448 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2014 09:56:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 10:56:09 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 1Y3ifp-0007vt-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:56:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ifo-0000I8-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ifk-0000Ef-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ifi-0005zO-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ifi-0005zE-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3ifh-0004OP-Vy; Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:56:02 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vbl2bblc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:00:15 +0100) 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:180626 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. ]]] > Is there a reason we cannot extend the Info format? It has been > extended for images already. It is certainly possible to extend Info format, but it would be a lot of duplicate effort and the result would not be as clean as HTML. I think using stylized HTML is a superior method. > The basic difference I see is that Info is preformatted and has > documents organized in multi-file parts (including an index) that the > Info reader is well-informed about. We can do that by using specific constructions in HTML that the HTML-Info reader will recognize so that it can provide the same features. -- 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.