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> > Supporting HTML would be _much_ more complex than making simple
> > extensions to info (note that the w3 html rendering code, which has been
> > worked on for many years, is still very buggy, and almost unusably slow
> > on many machines).
> 
> Supporting *all* of HTML certainly would be an enormous effort.  But
> supporting the simple subset that texi2html generates shouldn't be hard.

Let me just say that SGML syntax is hairy.
Now, I've said it.


	Stefan "who has worked a bit on sgml-mode.el"