From: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
To: d.love@dl.ac.uk (Dave Love), egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u9emt5xm6y.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqg1dodknl.fsf.cygnus.egcs@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
>>>>> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
Joe> HTML is a bad "source language"
> [...]
> Indeed.
Joe> but it's a good language to generate from other forms.
...
Joe> texi2html already exists.
> But is GNU-deprecated. I gather the new makeinfo is nearing alpha
> test. I presume it will still handle the g77 manual, at least, but
> that work was emphatically not done with the idea of dumping Info at
> this juncture!
FWIW, Cygnus has been planning to move to DocBook/SGML as a source
language, at least internally. I believe the LinuxDoc folks are
moving/have moved to DocBook as well. Free SGML tools have reached
critical mass; see
http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-21 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-14 14:04 Alex Buell
1998-09-14 21:49 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 11:34 ` Dave Love
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 1:12 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-09-15 8:17 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 3:07 ` Kamil Iskra
1998-09-16 3:07 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-16 11:34 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
1998-09-21 9:44 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-17 9:59 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
1998-09-19 18:47 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-25 10:17 ` Nicholas J. Leon
1998-09-25 19:05 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-25 22:53 ` Scott A Crosby
1998-09-15 18:39 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 19:05 ` Carlo Wood
1998-09-15 19:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-09-16 3:04 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 22:59 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-16 22:59 ` Per Bothner
1998-09-16 22:55 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-17 11:14 ` Dave Love
1998-09-16 21:52 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-19 12:03 ` Dave Love
[not found] ` <rzqg1dodknl.fsf.cygnus.egcs@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
1998-09-21 14:55 ` Jason Merrill [this message]
1998-09-22 14:12 ` Dave Love
1998-09-15 7:06 ` Clayton Weaver
1998-09-15 11:28 ` Alex Buell
1998-09-15 13:47 ` Tim Waugh
1998-09-15 14:14 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-09-16 1:48 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-17 10:03 David Ross
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