From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310281746.h9SHk2915693@f7.net> <200310292002.h9TK2kc23440@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067483496 8826 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 03:11:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 03:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 04:11:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF3Di-00007f-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:11:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF3Di-0007Df-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:11:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF388-0002PW-Hm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF2yq-000847-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF2yG-0007rZ-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF2yF-0007r6-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Oliver Scholz on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:47:03 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17602 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17602 I mean the current info format's  I think you meant `node'... My apologies. I misled you. The  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. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com