From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:18:21 +0100 Message-ID: <708906124.QMSzxCvBCm@descartes> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <83r3we2jb9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417807157 7446 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 19:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 20:19:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwyPF-0002SV-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwyPF-0005sz-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwyOu-0005ss-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:18:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwyOn-0004We-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:32811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwyOe-0004Sr-PH; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C0E2D96F; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:18:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ptmx.org Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ptmx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fnYXVbQ1IK2S; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:18:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (chello080109100138.16.15.univie.teleweb.at [80.109.100.138]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 34DF12D8EB; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:18:29 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.13.0-40-generic; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.28.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178994 Archived-At: On Friday 05 December 2014 13:12:39 Glenn Morris wrote: > Just want to say that I agree with you. > I've written a lot of Emacs documentation. > I like Texinfo, I'm used to Texinfo, Texinfo is not the problem. > I have no enthusiasm for throwing out all that experience just becaus= e > of some buzz-words being thrown around. I agree. Although Texinfo certainly is a slightly higher barrier and l= ess=20 people are familiar with it than potential alternatives, I don't think=20= changing it would result in more people being willing to contribute to = the=20 documentation. And if it annoys the people who are actually writing=20= documentation, like you and Eli, then it doesn't make sense to change i= t. That being said, I do think we should consider alternatives to using th= e Info=20 format. Now that we have eww/shr, it might make sense to use HTML as w= ell. =20 Although we need a way to support the index in it. Regards, R=C3=BCdiger