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: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8765hcf7q8.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <3FC3A11D.8040408@yahoo.com> <3FC4F303.9040201@yahoo.com> <3FCCDFDD.2030306@yahoo.com> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070408909 13037 80.91.224.253 (2 Dec 2003 23:48:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 00:48:26 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 1ARKFm-0001g6-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:48:26 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARKFm-0004rY-00 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:48:26 +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 1ARLBi-0006q3-6c for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARJb3-0001xX-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARJSV-0008Fh-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARJSQ-0008Ds-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:57:27 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: <3FCCDFDD.2030306@yahoo.com> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:54:21 -0700) 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:18297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18297 I just wanted to point out that there are divergent goals being discussed in this single thread. Yes, good point. > No, it does not. That is the point of a CGI script. You do *not* > have to download a whole document if the serving computer does the > work for you. Indeed, I was wrong: even a remote Info file accessed via ange-ftp can be searched incrementally. Are you sure it does this efficiently -- that is to say, will I be able to navigate through a complete `Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' in less than 17 seconds, or will it take me 17 minutes before my `Info-search' expression has got to the last node? My understanding is that ange-ftp/tramp downloads the file or files to the client machine and the search is done by the client. If the goal is to make documentation available for web browsers, makeinfo --html already does that. Right? No, `makeinfo --html' does a poor job; you cannot move around a document well. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com