From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: 04 Sep 2002 12:46:56 +0900 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D73F6D1.7010002@cox.net> <874rd7wuos.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3D74D797.7000707@cox.net> <87bs7etocv.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031111192 28250 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 03:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mR7f-0007LP-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:46:31 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27453; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA27406 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA27400 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.214]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27390; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g843l1E25179; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:47:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g843l1500298; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:47:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g843l0e21754; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:47:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g843kus24511; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:46:56 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 4926136F4; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:46:56 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87bs7etocv.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Original-Lines: 20 X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1368 gmane.emacs.devel:7425 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7425 "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Miles> I know that originally (in the days of the original emacs) > Miles> there actually were info files, but texinfo hadn't been > Miles> invented yet; how did people write info files then (by > Miles> hand?!)? > > Been there, done that. Texinfo is not an improvement, if restricted > to generating Info files. Not an improvement over what? Writing info files by hand? It seems an enormous improvement over that. > I wouldn't go back, although I'd like to go forward from Texinfo to > XMLinfo. Why? SGML and XML are quite unreadable compared to texinfo. -Miles -- Would you like fries with that?