From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improve access to documentation in Info format Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:03:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ser8c230.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86ser87rut.fsf@gnu.org> <871pygyjqt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87v7vnp2vx.fsf@> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22828"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: suhailsingh247@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Bidar Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 16 05:03:56 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tN2Ko-0005kx-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:03:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tN2KO-0006If-35; Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:03:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tN2KI-0006I7-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tN2KI-0007BT-HX; Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:03:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=jsrTLXyGlVgtwLpWBs4GvL/izQSkiKRr5fU14CGlLKE=; b=sE5YyStOSUrU ahOm8kmuC404Xt3XJjcDjYVbyanJd+bqQ2u7UOwwXQsK5S/tC08MDo8dPzjkS4AwIN+dt9OKe+4UN qEbObBWjnvKFoCfmvcB45i9ACAHR+QStI2yXw7BySldYocLr6nMWbzq9jnzWbqojSEMOwHldzewo/ 9a470XiJOvaVpXYxecAZ3txQDiOME86iFBDd9ljVBHtIj47wCVcKKaB4u+qV+qlZgKQstDyko+3xa WKefQJ8jr2kZKaAH6OkXj4CiDp7W3DvQ4w21oa41HJte7bgYtXJpL4qvogsD0RDy86ghQy7W06TWG JYgkfQStnjs3PxaMBA6rnQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tN2KH-00024B-0a; Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:03:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v7vnp2vx.fsf@> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Bidar on Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:41:22 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:326541 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. ]]] > > In principle I think this is a good idea, but there is a technical > > difficulty: it is impossible to produce a fully correct Info manual > > from those other formats. because those other formats do not make > > the necessary distincions. > Info being the minority in this instance would be in the position > to improve the output of these engines. Sorry, I don't follow you. Would you please spell out the points concretely? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)