Re: [Patch] FAQ in texinfo format

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

[This is a repost since the first message seems to have gone lost on
it's way through the news<->mail gateway on news.gnus.org]

sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

> On 20 Apr 2003, Kai Großjohann <- kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
>
>> It looks quite nice.
>
>> However, I'm thinking maybe it would be even better to have the source
>> available.  Unless, that is, you want to switch, so that people
>> consider the Texinfo version the source code from now on.
>
>> What do people think?

Well, the xml-source is no big help as I hand-edited the output of docbook2x
to quite a large degree. Further on, I see the FAQ as independent from
Gnus itself, so my idea was to update the texinfo version included in
Gnus before a new Gnus release (and sometimes between two releases to
keep the required work down) and let the actual process of improving and
updating the FAQ happen through the FAQ discussion list.

> Well I can only speak for me but if I wanted to add something to the faq
> it would be a lot easier if it was in texi than in xml (insert your most
> favourite rant here). So IMO it would be better to switch the master
> version to texi.

If anybody wants to contribute to the FAQ, it's as easy as to send the
question-answer pair (or fragments, ideas etc) to the FAQ discussion
list or me directly, I prefer to do the rest myself to keep a
homogeneous style.

MFG Frank

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