From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42255 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Doc typos and a question Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:54:27 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87vgeiouqw.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177518 10357 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9268 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 23:55:03 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 23:55:03 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16S5Jz-00036x-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:54:51 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:54:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA20104 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:54:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9259 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2002 23:54:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9254 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 23:54:34 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 23:54:34 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16S5NL-0006da-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:58:19 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011484699 23681 195.204.10.148 (19 Jan 2002 23:58:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2002 23:58:19 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us_: "Fem 2 Fem - Obsession" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: %z?{=j5R|a/Y("`daM;YyGaH]5\f6<*[PsQx6?2L~bQV1jYYmJx*iy:pb":!S+<(vrjG-b=FQ:TgTwJ\hwF Cancel-Lock: sha1:Voj1V+lnntmT6YYA73ZAaSDunzQ= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42255 Justin Sheehy writes: > I'm open to fairly sweeping changes. I don't have any real objections > to texinfo. Here are my real requirements if the format was to change: > > - no major hassles to maintain, preferably in a single file > - easy to convert to nicely-browsable single-file HTML > - easy to convert into minidigest format (the monthly posting) I think you can do all of those things (and more :-) with TeXinfo. > I don't feel strongly about the formatting language. Being able to > easily keep the version in the manual from being too out-of-date would > definitely be nice, though... Yup. If you did it in TeXinfo, you could also just stick it into the Gnus CVS and we would always have an up-to-the-minute version of the FAQ in the Gnus manual. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen