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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> It later occured to me that I don't see a good reason for extended the
> Info format with these capabilities -- there is a perfectly fine
> format for text with hyperlinks and images called HTML (I hope that
> doesn't come as a suprise to anyone) and making a viewer in Emacs for
> texi2html converted manuals similar to Info is IMHO a better
> solution. Or DocBook?  Hm.

I think implementing a new browser is more work than extending Info
with an image capability.

I don't want to use the nifty `i' command in Info -- and I don't
think that W3 supports this already.

kai
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