From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lisa-asket@perso.be Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <877dib8ivi.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8335"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: moasenwood@zoho.eu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 21:15:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lyfg3-0001zc-R4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56916 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyfg2-0000xD-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyfdu-0007rk-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from msg-1.mailo.com ([213.182.54.11]:39568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lyfdn-0000Eb-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: by www-8.mailo.com with http webmail; Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:53:22 +0200 (CEST) X-EA-Auth: pkUUWBdiT0HmG4AAD2kb/mQc/oPMKUhJWOuuZWmFqW1lX57MyKXkv1qkXpmXKii1Mc6vaIErpVEt00FI4KtqAg== X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: COMS/EA21.01/r20210601 In-Reply-To: <877dib8ivi.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.11; envelope-from=lisa-asket@perso.be; helo=msg-1.mailo.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131356 Archived-At: >From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor >To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >Subject: Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html >Date: 30/06/2021 17:36:17 Europe/Paris >Jean Louis wrote: >>>> In reality there is no valid reason not to use elisp. >> >> No valid reason NOT to use Emacs Lisp. Well, there are many >> valid reasons for variety of people one important one would >> be the familiarity to a programming language. Have came to agree that there can be valid reasons.=C2=A0 But I got a sugg= estion on using emacs which gets the job done and which was pleasant to me. Have also learned to use `make` a little bit, which is not bad. I customarily try different ways. >GNU make is written in C but that's not where the strength >lies, rather it's in the cleverness and practicality of the >solution itself. >BTW I'm pretty sure someone wrote or tried to write something >similar in Lisp. That would be very possible if one felt the >need to do that.