From: Martin Pool <mbp@canonical.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
bob@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Texinfo
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:06:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01316480912131606y1ab31635yd718918f992284@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NJrDc-0006N6-LY@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009/12/14 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> I think a better alternative would be to keep Bazaar documentation in
> a dialect of reST (or other suitable structured text) and provide a
> docutils writer to produce Texinfo from that.
>
> Generating the Texinfo sources from some other format is fine. The
> GNU standards don't say that you need to edit manuals in Texinfo, only
> that they should be available in Texinfo format.
>
> Martin, how about it?
Hi,
I agree we should produce a Texinfo doc. We have a bug to track this
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219334> and people have suggested
some tools that may be able to do it. If somebody who loves Texinfo
will tell me "run tool X with command line Y and it produces good
output" I'll put it in to the Makefile.
--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-14 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 1:51 Texinfo Robert J. Chassell
2009-12-11 3:48 ` Texinfo Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-13 16:22 ` Texinfo Richard Stallman
2009-12-14 0:06 ` Martin Pool [this message]
2009-12-15 13:12 ` Texinfo Richard Stallman
2009-12-15 22:09 ` Texinfo Martin Pool
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