From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents. Date: 25 Nov 2003 23:38:20 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8765hcf7q8.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87brr3dnwr.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <3FC3A11D.8040408@yahoo.com> <87ad6kb4ec.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069796584 13506 80.91.224.253 (25 Nov 2003 21:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 22:43:01 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 1AOkxY-0000zM-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:43:00 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOkxY-0006Yf-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:43:00 +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 1AOlsh-00064E-66 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOlrQ-0005fE-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:40:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOlqt-0005TQ-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.162.153.2] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOlqs-0005SS-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 886304800F3; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:38:44 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-Reply-To: <87ad6kb4ec.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:18119 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18119 Nic Ferrier writes: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > > > Nic Ferrier wrote: > > > > > It's an additional format to solve the specific problem of reading > > > documentation that you don't happen to have on your local machine. > > > > Why can't ange-ftp, tramp, or http-get be used to retrieve remote Info > > files for local browsing within Emacs? > > Because it would take a lot of work to alter the info reader to make > that happen. I doubt that it will take more work than adding XSLT and javascript support to and otherwise enhancing emacs/w3. > > And users would then be tied to emacs for doing it... What's wrong about that? This is emacs-devel which is supposed to deal with emacs development! > The current > proposal offers at least as much flexibility as current Info > publishing systems: > > - it will be available to browsers > - it will therefore be available to emacs > - it will also therefore be available on the console (links) so: - this discussion will continue outside emacs-devel, right? Thank you. ++kfs