From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:53:54 +0200 Message-ID: <8338mmcsd9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2lrczi7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385268836 25738 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2013 04:53:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 04:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ttn@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, john@yates-sheets.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 24 05:53:59 2013 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 1VkRhn-0003u9-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 05:53:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkRhm-0006cR-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkRhg-0006Uy-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkRhc-0006qe-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:53:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:43959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkRhc-0006jw-9J; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MWR00H0040QJ500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:53:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MWR00HA049KLC00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:53:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:165646 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:12:27 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ttn@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, > drew.adams@oracle.com > > > Styles facilitate maintenance of large documents. That is why Texinfo > > is based on styles. > > The Texinfo "styles" are actually typefaces, so they are "faces" in > Emacs parlance. > > We are miscommunicating -- Texinfo has various constructs that specify > semantic markup, and some, such as @example, specify a typeface and other > parameters too. Sorry, I don't see the difference. I asked you to point out those differences, i.e. tell what does Texinfo have that is conceptually different from Emacs faces. Unfortunately, you didn't.