From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11360 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New PostScript manuals generated Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:00:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151081 29829 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10574 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:28:57 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16715 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:29:28 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA26234 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:28:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:04:51 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 14830 invoked by uid 504); 17 Jun 1997 16:04:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14820 invoked from network); 17 Jun 1997 16:04:32 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (129.240.64.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 1997 16:04:31 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex05.uio.no [129.240.154.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:04:00 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id SAA00565; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:00:17 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 16 Jun 1997 11:51:29 -0400 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.1/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Maintain the original in SGML and use the SGML tools to make various other > version from the hypertext version. I believe that they include an SGML to > Texinfo filter. > > Failing that, maintain the original in Texinfo and use the Texinfo to HTML > filter. Hear, hear. The last couple of weeks I've had to search out documentation on various fields I don't know much about, and it's rather heartbreaking for me to see just how much stuff is only documented on the Web. I want to print things out, sit down in my sofa and read things off of paper, not sit staring at the screen while reading documentation. It's fine for reading quickie stuff, but for actual reading, it's awful, I think. I'm really happy with the FSF's choice of TeXinfo. We get paper, info and HTML documentation all in one. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen