From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs Subject: Re: inforef Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:17:17 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200412141721.iBEHLG327759@f7.net> <200412150515.iBF5F0s11052@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103156335 19000 80.91.229.6 (16 Dec 2004 00:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 01:18:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CejM0-0001Nb-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:18:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CejWD-0004DK-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CejVX-0004AP-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CejVU-00046z-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:28:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CejVU-00045c-4m; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.79.80.138] (helo=mserv7.dl.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CejKg-0003Hp-5X; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:17:26 -0500 X-DL-MFrom: X-DL-Connect: Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk (albion.dl.ac.uk [148.79.80.39]) by mserv7.dl.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.8/[ref postmaster@dl.ac.uk]) with ESMTP id iBG0HHlE021202; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:17:17 GMT Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CejKX-0005QJ-00; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:17:17 +0000 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200412150515.iBF5F0s11052@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:15:00 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-CCLRC-SPAM-report: 0 : X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31188 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:2407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31188 Luc Teirlinck writes: > The problem with hardcopy is that you can not click on a link to > produce the printed manual referred to. Regardless, TeX output from Texinfo may not be destined for hardcopy, and DVI and PDF viewers support hyperlinks. texi2pdf yields external links to URLs or other PDF files. (That's not just a theoretical or recent possibility -- I was using it for online doc probably before HTML had escaped from CERN.) > Consider a beginning user reading the published version of the Emacs > manual and seeing a reference to the "Emacs MIME Manual". How is that > user to know that this refers to a .texi file to be found and printed > off by the user himself? There is not the slightest indication of > that. If that's a significant problem you could, for instance, explain it in the introduction, make a texinfo.tex option for setting an alternative Info reference as a footnote/endnote. I'd guess that would only be relevant when actually producing copy for publication.