From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87o95lrc69.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a7h8u4r4.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef6ipzef.fsf@gnu.org> <20190404102320.GA6369@darkstar.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190404102320.GA6369@darkstar.lan> (Gavin Smith's message of "Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:23:20 +0100") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-texinfo" To: Gavin Smith Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Andy Wingo , Texinfo List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith skribis: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:11:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: [...] >> I was mentioning this because it=E2=80=99s an experiment that Andy Wingo= did >> about 15 years (?!) ago. Andy wrote the Texinfo parser that=E2=80=99s n= ow part >> of Guile, and then had a Guile-GTK program that used a tree widget to >> show the contents, had clickable links, text would reflow, etc. (See >> . >> Unfortunately the screenshot has disappeared.) >>=20 >> That said, it surely is quite a bit of work, but I think it=E2=80=99s an= option >> we could consider. > > This is an interesting idea. How far developed was the program? Is it=20 > still extant? This was a pure Guile approach. The parser itself has been part of Guile since 2.0; it=E2=80=99s good but incomplete (usually it cannot parse complete manuals.) The viewer was based on Guile-GNOME, which was in the GTK+2 era I believe. It definitely wouldn=E2=80=99t be usable as-is today. Andy, do y= ou remember more? :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.