From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:57:32 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k3mg7bxf.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch> <20901.8264.9162.330645@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20902.12476.291747.710823@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20903.7625.861080.943448@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20903.14080.45049.893441@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369925877 17760 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2013 14:57:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:57:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 16:57:56 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 1Ui4Ie-0003Qp-27 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 16:57:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4Id-0002Bz-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4IV-000264-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4IR-00030F-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4IR-0002zi-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4IQ-0003IT-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 16:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.26.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 16:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 16:57:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FSBWSM9CtC87HDvgJG5HLhYcq1k= 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:159927 Archived-At: On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:24:48 +0200 "Roland Winkler" wrote: RW> On Thu May 30 2013 Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> Emacs itself uses a different layout and keeps non-lisp files in >> different directories like etc or info. (Hopefully there are no plans >> to change that?) RW> The problem is really that the TeX files generated by bbdb-print RW> connect two different worlds: RW> The TeX file is generated by emacs that comes with its search path RW> and installation tree. But then this TeX file gets compiled by the RW> TeX command that only knows its own search paths. RW> And all this happens in a user directory so that everything should RW> not depend on the absolute directories used by the particular RW> installations of emacs and TeX. This may be quite heretical, but have you considered Markdown for the BBDB docs? No build systems needed; readable as plain text; convertible to many other formats with little work; really easy to learn and use. Emacs can view it. I've been happy with Markdown for personal and work use. The lack of a build system is especially appealing, from experience with installing hundreds of megabytes for the documentation support toolchain for Gnus and BBDB. Ted