From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:31:34 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020871991 2916 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 15:33:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , ttn@glug.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175TRH-0000kv-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 17:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175TZS-0007Wo-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 17:41:38 +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 175TRG-0002Pz-00; Wed, 08 May 2002 11:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175TQI-0002NM-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 11:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g48FW45p027211; Wed, 8 May 2002 17:32:05 +0200 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Wed, 08 May 2002 16:02:29 +0200") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by yxa.extundo.com id g48FW45p027211 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:3739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3739 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> It later occured to me that I don't see a good reason for extended the >> Info format with these capabilities -- there is a perfectly fine >> format for text with hyperlinks and images called HTML (I hope that >> doesn't come as a suprise to anyone) and making a viewer in Emacs for >> texi2html converted manuals similar to Info is IMHO a better >> solution. Or DocBook? Hm. > > I think implementing a new browser is more work than extending Info > with an image capability. > > I don't want to use the nifty `i' command in Info -- and I don't > think that W3 supports this already. Right, the manual browser would continue to work the same, but the file format need to be changed if images and stuff are to be supported. HTML could be made to work, I think. DocBook seems to be designed for these things, maybe it is better, I don't know.