From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 02:40:58 +0100 Message-ID: <877g3i828l.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405215696 8580 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2014 01:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 03:41:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1X68nA-0005dW-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 03:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68nA-0002nP-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68mt-0002mJ-FY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68mm-0002zh-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:60435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X68mm-0002yq-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE3E987AA for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 25818 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2014 01:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[78.159.6.51]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 13 Jul 2014 01:41:01 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Javier on Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:52:06 +0000 (UTC)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98666 Archived-At: Javier writes: ... > It would be an interesting project to convert those documents to > texinfo format. With Python it is possible to convert the > documentation (sphinx doc generator) of Python and its libraries to > texinfo, and documentation can be gerated automatically for any > python project to texinfo. If you're using GNU C or C++ library functions and you have the manuals installed then C-h S will do the trick. I think the same is true for Fortran and Ada too. But, it would be very useful if more languages and libraries were supported. Automatic generation of info from other documentation formats would be very useful. It should be possible to add code to something like pandoc to output info files. BR, Robert Thorpe