From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:55:33 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1AF2yD-000UNaC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ur80vwz3s.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:47:03 +0100)
I mean the current info format's \x1f
I think you meant `node'...
My apologies. I misled you. The \x1f marks the beginning of a node,
not a node itself. It is a node boundary. The node is the text
between two such marks or between such a mark and the beginning or end
of a file. (Or maybe a node includes such a mark....)
Twenty years or more ago, people wrote Info files directly. This was
before Texinfo. At that time, it was important to know how to mark
the beginning of a node. Texinfo was invented in the 1980s, and since
then people have avoided writing directly in Info. This is because we
want outputs -- `surface expressions' -- in multiple formats: not only
Info, but HTML, XML, PS, PDF, DVI, and so on.
Nowadays, only makeinfo maintainers like Karl are likely to know
about, and a few eccentric experts.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-28 17:46 terminal escapes in Info files? Karl Berry
2003-10-28 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 12:20 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 16:24 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 17:29 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-29 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-30 1:13 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 22:06 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-11-03 12:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 18:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 19:09 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 20:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-29 20:47 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 22:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-30 2:37 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-10-30 2:55 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-10-29 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 18:00 ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-29 18:43 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-30 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-31 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-28 20:09 Karl Berry
2003-10-29 12:52 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-29 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 14:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 17:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:53 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 21:18 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 15:28 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-31 2:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-28 20:06 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:51 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-28 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-28 16:50 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 1:26 Karl Berry
2003-10-28 10:51 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 13:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-30 10:42 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-28 16:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-29 21:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-29 22:39 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-30 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:45 ` Alper Ersoy
2003-10-29 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-30 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-29 19:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-26 12:20 Karl Berry
2003-10-26 12:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-26 15:40 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-10-27 7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-27 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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