From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51704 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Patch] FAQ in texinfo format Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 18:50:22 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <848yu5dygz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: replies@Frank-Schmitt.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050914733 22487 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 08:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M247@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 21 10:45:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197Wvb-0005qB-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:45:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 197WwJ-0004KQ-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 197WwB-0004KK-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 03:46:08 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 81718 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2003 08:46:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 81713 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2003 08:46:06 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2003 08:46:06 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197Wzz-0000K7-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:50:03 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pppin34.max-hochsimmer.rz-online.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1050915003 1078 212.7.169.34 (21 Apr 2003 08:50:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2003 08:50:03 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_Umail 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 -- "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." -- Unknown author