From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info
Date: 06 Jun 2003 11:02:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buofzmo2cbr.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m19O4b2-000IetC@rattlesnake.com>
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> You probably don't have any trouble writing good Texinfo, but I have
> read too much bad documentation to like an output format that does not
> help a novice writer understand Texinfo.
You're not making much sense here; how does the verbiage surrounding
traditional info xrefs help a novice writer understand Texinfo?
The extra verbiage _does_ make info documents harder to read as simple
documents, which for the great majority of users (who aren't texinfo
authors) is the crucial point.
[and note that Kim's code doesn't change texinfo into html -- links
still have a standard textual form, simply one that's less intrusive
than the traditional form]
-Miles
--
"Though they may have different meanings, the cries of 'Yeeeee-haw!' and
'Allahu akbar!' are, in spirit, not actually all that different."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-04 14:04 Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info Karl Berry
2003-06-04 14:26 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-04 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-04 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-04 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-04 16:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-04 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05 2:38 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 3:23 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-05 5:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-05 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-06 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 11:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-06 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-05 10:58 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-04 15:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 12:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 0:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-05 22:55 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-05 23:11 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-05 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05 23:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 2:02 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-06-06 13:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 13:02 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-08 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-08 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-08 2:30 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-09 8:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-06 14:00 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 16:54 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-06 17:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-08 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-15 15:47 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-15 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-15 22:27 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-16 12:02 ` Reiner Steib
2003-06-16 18:45 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-15 17:46 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-16 5:46 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-15 19:00 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06 17:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-07 11:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 16:50 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-05 20:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 16:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 16:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-09 23:17 Karl Berry
2003-06-11 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-08 13:48 Karl Berry
2003-06-08 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-09 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 16:30 Karl Berry
2003-06-05 16:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 23:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-06 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 12:59 Karl Berry
2003-06-05 15:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 16:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-05 18:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-06 17:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 23:12 Karl Berry
2003-06-05 0:39 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-04 8:54 Richard Stallman
2003-06-04 9:06 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-04 15:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-04 21:54 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-12 6:47 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-12 22:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13 3:58 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-06-13 5:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13 5:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-13 6:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-05 2:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-06-05 13:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-10 0:03 ` Kim F. Storm
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