From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ifinfo vs ifnottex Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:46:11 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200605182029.k4IKTUZ13053@f7.net> <200605190332.k4J3WmQT012228@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <200605200240.k4K2eSU9021041@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148114803 24920 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2006 08:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 20 10:46:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhN6f-0003YB-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 10:46:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhN6f-0001Un-7J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 04:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhN6S-0001SR-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 04:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhN6S-0001Rj-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 04:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhN6S-0001RP-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 04:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhN9w-0000Tg-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 04:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-197-117.inter.net.il [83.130.197.117]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EFS00327 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 20 May 2006 11:46:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200605200240.k4K2eSU9021041@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Fri, 19 May 2006 21:40:28 -0500 (CDT)) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54861 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:40:28 -0500 (CDT) > From: Luc Teirlinck > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > (Note that the Makefile's currently don't support anything beyond > these two formats.) > > I now believe that you meant allowing users to build the HTML manuals > using something like `make elisp.html' in analogy with `make elisp.dvi'. Yes. Or, better, just "make HTML" to produce HTML versions of _all_ the manuals. And similarly for XML, DocBook, and PDF. > Since running makeinfo directly is not that difficult, I do not > believe that the lack of support from the Makefiles is a major > impediment for generating other output formats. For someone who has good knowledge of makeinfo, it's not an impediment. For others, it is. Similarly, for someone who knows how to run GCC, it won't be a problem to compile Emacs by hand, but we still supply special Makefile targets for that. Quite a few of other GNU packages have such special targets in their doc directories, so the idea occurred to others as well.