From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>,
Texinfo <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:12:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef6kyxnj.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7h8u4r4.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> I hear the argument; it’s true that not everyone uses Emacs or is
> familiar with the standalone Info reader. Rendering of Info manuals in
> Emacs is not bad, but a modern browser can do a better job.
>
> Yet I’m not completely sold to the everything in the browser approach,
> and everything in JavaScript. In an ideal world (for me), we’d rather
> provide a local documentation viewer that renders Texinfo directly.
As far as I know GNOME’s Yelp is a frontend to different kinds of
documentation and it does support Info files.
It may not work out of the box without setting some environment
variables first, but I remember viewing Info manuals in Yelp not too
long ago when I first learned that it supports Info.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-02 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-01 12:55 Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Gavin Smith
2019-04-01 14:01 ` sirgazil
2019-04-02 9:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-02 15:02 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-02 16:46 ` Per Bothner
2019-04-07 16:28 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-08 15:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-08 15:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-04-08 23:46 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-09 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-13 16:21 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-14 19:25 ` Pronaip
2019-10-15 19:27 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 20:20 ` P
2019-10-15 20:35 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 20:40 ` Per Bothner
2019-10-15 21:00 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 21:09 ` Per Bothner
2019-10-15 21:30 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-16 1:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-19 20:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-22 19:00 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-22 20:18 ` Gavin Smith
2019-11-03 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-03 15:37 ` Gavin Smith
2019-11-06 21:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-03 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-04 10:33 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-02 15:31 ` Per Bothner
2019-04-03 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-03 22:44 ` Per Bothner
2019-04-04 10:23 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-04 16:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-02 20:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-04-02 20:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-02 22:58 ` sirgazil
2019-04-02 22:10 ` Per Bothner
2019-04-02 23:09 ` sirgazil
2019-04-03 8:43 ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-03 14:23 ` sirgazil
2019-04-03 14:40 ` Per Bothner
2019-04-03 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-02 21:02 ` George Clemmer
2019-04-07 11:08 ` Gavin Smith
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