From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:14:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87wprhqb6v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k2nnk73w.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb72a924.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn8t5kw8.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIPC5-000470-Qi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:14:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIPC5-0003hJ-02 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:14:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Federico Beffa's message of "Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:19:00 +0100") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel Hi, Federico Beffa writes: > HTML is not better than Info. Here we only need to keep it for > 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc' to work. This is functionality for mit-scheme > whereby Emacs looks up the documentation for the identifier at point. > > For PDFs, it depends on the type and quality of the manual. If it is > short and/or poor, then nobody will spend hours reading it. But if the > manual is good and long, then there is a chance that people will spend > a lot of time reading it and it would be nice to have a good quality > environment to read it (again, I'm talking about font graphics > rendering). > > This is analogous to making public buildings suitable for people with > wheel-chairs, ... may people don't care, until they are affected :-( Sorry I don't understand your analogy. IIUC the discussion is about what should be installed with the default output. Putting the PDF version of the manual in the 'doc' output will not prevent anyone to use it. Did I miss something? -- Mathieu Lirzin