From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:03:57 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87fvcpjite.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87lhmlncb1.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205193643.GB5067@thyrsus.com> <83egsd3kyi.fsf@gnu.org> <871toapbh9.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83ppbuxgxx.fsf@gnu.org> <83mw6yxeij.fsf@gnu.org> <8761dllwds.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d27tk4j9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sigpk3zk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87sigpnsxv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418115878 5896 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 09:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:04:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 10:04:28 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 1XyGia-0001GG-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyGiZ-0001Rv-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyGiQ-0001Rq-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyGiJ-000084-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:04:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyGiJ-00007v-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyGiH-00016c-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:04:09 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.170.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:04:09 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:04:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4aa58.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TMMMjB5pSZHaEXgVpHHzxVh/Br0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:179539 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> It would be better if everybody could do the markup themselves. > > Just a note: > > I don't know how to write info with texinfo but I remember I wrote manuals in this > format using muse. > Muse is able to convert a file in diverse formats including latex, > texinfo, (x)html and maybe others (Don't remember, long time I didn't > use this). > So writing all documentation in such format would make everybody happy, > allowing to convert the document in various formats. I am flabbergasted at the number of people not understanding the difference between source and target formats. Conversions are only an option for editing source files when they are round-trip safe including all source formatting and comments. -- David Kastrup