From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42146 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Doc typos and a question Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:51:47 -0500 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 1035177427 9825 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8065 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 06:54:09 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 06:54:09 -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 16RStw-0003VM-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:53:24 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:53:17 -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 AAA10170 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:53:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8037 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2002 06:53:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8029 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 06:53:02 -0000 Original-Received: from ra.iago.org (192.148.252.45) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 06:53:02 -0000 Original-Received: from ra.iago.org.iago.org (ra.iago.org [192.148.252.45]) by ra.iago.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA612C1CD for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:51:47 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:17:10 +0100") Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor, sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42146 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> The FAQ in the manual is very old. Maybe we should remove it? Or at >> least incorporate new versions (semi-)automatically? > > It would be best if we could get a new texinfo version of the FAQ > included. It's being maintained in HTML, I believe. Your belief is correct. It has been maintained in HTML since well before I took over maintainership of it. Producing a new texinfo version has been on my todo list forever, and I keep managing to not do it. When I get to it (soon, I hope), I don't know whether I'll do another one-shot conversion or if I'll switch over the canonical form. 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) The second and third shouldn't be all that big a deal, since one ought to be able to write code to do that sort of conversion even if there is no built-in program to do so. However, the time required to write that is likely to increase my personal level of procrastination. 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... -Justin