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: terminal escapes in Info files? Date: 30 Oct 2003 08:03:31 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280126.h9S1Q9N16202@f7.net> <20031028105102.GA7330@dirtyweb.penguinpowered.com> <2504-Wed29Oct2003234318+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067493815 27049 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 06:03:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dirt@gtk.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 07:03:32 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 1AF5u8-0005et-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:03:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AF5u8-0000Cz-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:03:32 +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 1AF5sv-0001QC-6g for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF5sp-0001PL-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:02:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AF5sH-0001IM-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AF5sG-0001Hk-Nu; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:01:36 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 29 Oct 2003 23:39:00 +0100) 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:17606 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17606 > From: David Kastrup > Date: 29 Oct 2003 23:39:00 +0100 > > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > > > From: David Kastrup > > > Date: 29 Oct 2003 20:47:46 +0100 > > > > > > I think the first sensible step would be to augment the HTML > > > generating scripts in the texinfo distribution so as to include the > > > _complete_ information available in info file format, probably as > > > some tags usually ignored by typical HTML browsers. > > > > HTML browsers don't ignore anything, > > Not even comments? Sorry, it seems I completely misunderstood what you were saying in the sentence to which I responded. I thought you were saying that HTML browsers ignore some parts of the HTML output produced by makeinfo, and that is why they are less efficient for reading a manual. Thus, this paragraph: > > I may be forgetting something, but in general I don't think there's > > some Texinfo markup we don't put into HTML as we do into Info > > format. > > So then it should be conceivable to use this HTML as a different info > file format. Sure, it's conceivable, it just requires a thorough rewrite of the standalone reader.