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: Changes to Texinfo DTD Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:35:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7494-Thu04Dec2003173521+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <8765heixvu.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ptfkdqss.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <20031122214251.GA14680@fencepost> <874qwuqjzw.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311241619.hAOGJ6W27027@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200312030147.hB31lUh20316@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2914-Wed03Dec2003181809+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200312040254.hB42sjq25857@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070552710 1216 80.91.224.253 (4 Dec 2003 15:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 16:45:04 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 1ARvf6-00086O-00 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ARvf5-00015o-01 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:45:04 +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 1ARwYU-0004Rz-Lg for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARwWo-00048L-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:40:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ARwWH-0003xd-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.22] (helo=gollum.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARwWF-0003wO-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.144.52]) by gollum.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.8-GR) with ESMTP id BZI51736; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:36:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Oliver Scholz X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Oliver Scholz on Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:39:27 +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:18372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18372 > From: Oliver Scholz > Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:39:27 +0100 > > Now that you mention it ... It is probably a better idea to implement > the feature in Emacs first. It's certainly much easier, so I'm in full agreement with you here. > [For testing this extensively, it would be nice if "makeinfo > my-texinfo-source.texi" would produce XML instead of info format, > dependend on the value of some environment variable. Most of my local > info files have been generated by makefiles.] One way to do that is to build a hacked version of makeinfo where XML output is the default. Then at least you can test this on your machine(s) with minimal fuss.