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: Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83pow37xyz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160210121829.000005c2@kit.edu> <87lh6r6r8r.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455225207 26210 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2016 21:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, julius.pfrommer@kit.edu To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 22:13:15 2016 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 1aTyY7-00064n-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:13:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53609 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTyY6-00052G-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTyY3-000522-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTyXz-000115-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33375) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTyXz-000111-74; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4997 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTyXb-0004T1-PF; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:12:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lh6r6r8r.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:23:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199778 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:23:16 +0100 > Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, Julius Pfrommer , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 2016-02-11, at 19:17, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > > Somebody already wrote a tool that converts the GCC texinfo > > > documentation to rst (restructured text), that can then be fed into > > > Sphinx: > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-11/msg01030.html > > > > Would people look at the results > > and see if it has the features we would like to have > > in HTML intended to replace the Info format? > > I thought the general consensus was that we would _not_ like to replace > the Info format... No, you misunderstood. We don't want to replace Texinfo as the source language, but having an HTML-based documentation reader that is otherwise as capable as the Info readers we have is definitely a desirable direction.