From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Pool Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Texinfo Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:06:12 +1100 Message-ID: References: <871vj2qig7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260759228 4309 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2009 02:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , bob@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 03:53:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NK148-0002uv-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:53:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NK148-0005qV-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJySD-0004EM-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJyS8-0004By-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:06:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51829 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJyS8-0004Bv-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:06:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f183.google.com ([209.85.222.183]:59346) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJyS6-0007C3-6d; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: by pzk13 with SMTP id 13so624996pzk.25 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:06:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ByioGyc5T5h/wBuITJ35BeJsS57DjuQ0ihB4/Gf30/M=; b=MpkUsZIqTj6P4jZkKzJ42bfxp6UIFGGblmh322AADfBI/tIExMFQ9/vJLOeURdXxVy DuVu9S+rP10vO0yuWzyrCdhbJJYFjsuk7wmNTPe9Tv1e6RDbDIYdvazLM4GXzKv5h33C nxSx6uzniABC+EfDJ4Sh3Sh9jfCmrCR7T5jAw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FNEieFVBigi1t/dFhI0q7VHULL5f88sy5w6lLc1AInp/YX33OTfRNVhdBirYXaTRig hvzo1/2GCrJdbnwl9YEtVRIleAfd2QlswNcKLBszZAEwKB1YrWeYLciL1smZ+atxoPuK 23bdukie5AiTzC/pZIjlG7n9VAiIYRDQPNuHE= Original-Received: by 10.140.179.8 with SMTP id b8mr2808158rvf.169.1260749172130; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:06:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: d5ffd19a2be20157 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:53:27 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118602 Archived-At: 2009/12/14 Richard Stallman : > =A0 =A0I think a better alternative would be to keep Bazaar documentation= in > =A0 =A0a dialect of reST (or other suitable structured text) and provide = a > =A0 =A0docutils writer to produce Texinfo from that. > > Generating the Texinfo sources from some other format is fine. =A0The > 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 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. --=20 Martin