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: Trunk still not open Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:19:49 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87k3bvg3wa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <6xwqfxhl88.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83txb1mcsy.fsf@gnu.org> <87siqlku0i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wqfxari2.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ha70kyy3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <5323B66B.5070405@yandex.ru> <87vbvfrd8b.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394878814 16567 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2014 10:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 11:20:23 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 1WOlhW-0004Ae-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:20:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOlhV-00053f-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOlhN-0004tW-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOlhH-0003jP-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOlhG-0003ij-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WOlhE-0003uS-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f4748c.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.116.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f4748c.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f4748c.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/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Um0ULLz9fn0u4ieTSSE9SBGFkEY= 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:170387 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > Dmitry Gutov writes: > >> Updating Texinfo manuals is low-cost? It's a yet another technology a >> person will have to learn to contribute, that, in all likelihood, they >> won't use anywhere else. > > There is a very high "startup cost" to writing TexInfo documentation. > "Startup cost" come when you are giving birth to a manual or introducing > a big chapter in an existing manual. > > What one can do is, write out the documentation in Org and use the > Org->TexInfo exporter to create the initial draft. Just enable texinfo > in the `org-export-backends' and export the usual way. > > ps: I find the texinfo markup verbose-y and the `@'-s irritating. > Honestly speaking, what gets in the way is one's own dislike and > reluctance. But it's just like Scribe? -- David Kastrup