From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: 09 May 2002 01:10:50 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8kmei2d.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200204302119.g3ULJAP06813@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205031825.g43IP3e00651@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xwuuk6b4q.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205052315.g45NFFE29713@rum.cs.yale.edu> <8632-Tue07May2002212418+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <874rhjtrez.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1020826280.1281.35.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020874349 12642 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 16:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175U3J-0003Hn-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 18:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175UBV-0008RK-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 18:20:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175U3I-0006JQ-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 12:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175U2H-0006Ft-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 12:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-201.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.201] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 175U2E-0001EF-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 01:11:22 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E51D3090; Thu, 9 May 2002 01:10:50 +0900 (JST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <1020826280.1281.35.camel@space-ghost> Original-Lines: 29 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3744 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3744 Colin Walters writes: > Supporting *all* of HTML certainly would be an enormous effort. But > supporting the simple subset that texi2html generates shouldn't be hard. Perhaps, but would doing so actually convey any benefit? Here are four potential benefits from using something like html as an intermediate representation for our docs: (1) We could use our browser to view other people's (html) docs (2) Other people could view our docs in their html browser (3) We could use html-producing tools to make stuff for our browser (4) We could feed our docs to html-consuming tools If implement only a small part of html, then we basically lose benefits (1) and (3), because our browser won't be featureful enough. Implementing a full-enough subset to actually be useful for these purposes is probably quite hard. If we also _extend_ html -- as we would probably want to do, to retain all the benefits of info (like whole-document searching) -- then we _also_ lose benefits (2) and (4). So... what's the point, again? -Miles -- Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia