From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 07:26:00 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877kmesl07.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021181417 24147 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2002 05:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 05:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 176lw0-0006HM-00 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 176m5v-0006eH-00 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:40:31 +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 176lw5-000685-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 01:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 176luC-0005zh-00 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 01:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 176lu9-0003hQ-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id E9A26A4575; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Alan Shutko In-Reply-To: <877kmesl07.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (Alan Shutko's message of "Wed, 08 May 2002 11:43:36 -0400") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:3849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3849 Alan Shutko writes: > I may be wrong, but I don't think anyone uses DocBook files directly > for help support. They all convert it into HTML and use a minimal > HTML browser. No. Yelp is the new help browser for GNOME 2.0. It supports documents written in Docbook XML (= normalized SGML files), man pages and info pages. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/yelp/ > Most Gnome and KDE docs are really small in comparison to the Emacs > manual, anyway, and they don't need to face the same kinds of issues > we do. Maybe most, but not all. The Gimp documentation is comprehensive (I admit I didn't try to view it using yelp). > The only thing their docs have that we don't is image embedding. You can apply your own stylesheets (XSL) to tweak the view of the document -- in Emacs you can customize faces. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)