From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD Date: 04 Dec 2003 09:58:33 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8765heixvu.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ptfkdqss.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20031122214251.GA14680@fencepost> <874qwuqjzw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311241619.hAOGJ6W27027@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312030147.hB31lUh20316@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2914-Wed03Dec2003181809+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200312040253.hB42rFS25853@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070524762 9608 80.91.224.253 (4 Dec 2003 07:59:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, epameinondas@gmx.de, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 08:59:18 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 1ARoOM-0006Ks-00 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:59:18 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARoOM-0004Aw-00 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:59:18 +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 1ARpKt-0003H7-Oy for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARpJk-0002qC-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARpJD-0002OF-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARpJB-0002Gw-KX; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:58:01 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200312040253.hB42rFS25853@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:53:15 -0600 (CST)) 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:18355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18355 > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:53:15 -0600 (CST) > From: Luc Teirlinck > > It would be silly (and impossible) to try to manually rewrite all > references to other manuals in all currently existing .texi files this > way In general, I see nothing silly about making the manual look better. More specifically, references to other manuals are relatively rare, to the best of my memory. And there's no need to rewrite all of them at once: we could do that whenever we find a problem. > when the xrefs contain enough information for an Info reader > (actually "makeinfo --xml" reader) to rewrite these sentences > _automatically_ the way you want them rewritten As long as XML didn't replace the current Info format, this option is a bit academic, IMHO.