From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:12:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87ef6kyxnj.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87a7h8u4r4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBPmD-0007Ob-7U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:12:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBPmB-0000mQ-1l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:12:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a7h8u4r4.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Gavin Smith , Texinfo Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > I hear the argument; it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99m not completely sold to the everything in the browser appr= oach, > and everything in JavaScript. In an ideal world (for me), we=E2=80=99d r= ather > provide a local documentation viewer that renders Texinfo directly. As far as I know GNOME=E2=80=99s 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