On 11/24/2016 12:16 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 23 November 2016 at 19:33, Per Bothner <[email protected]> wrote:
I've talked before about getting rid of the info format.
I've written up a draft roadmap / plan of action with more details:
http://per.bothner.com/blog/2016/texinfo-roadmap/
Its weakness is the “info” file format
Why is that a weakness? Surely people can ignore the "info" file
format if they want to and focus on the HTML, DocBook and/or printed
(TeX) output?
I added a "Problems with info" section that I hope answers these questions.
There are some projects that you mention that could be useful. They
could be undertaken on their own and produce something useful:
* modify texi2any to have an option to output HTML5
Yes, I think that is a desirable step. But in my opinion: just "HTML5"
is not enough - it would be clean well-structured html5. The current --html
output is not.
* create a HTML documentation reader in JavaScript with advanced features
* work on distribution or installation of HTML files. for example,
this could be done by a GNU/Linux distribution that wants to make HTML
documentation available.
I would also add, as a needed, independent project:
* Change the standalone info program to a wrapper around 'emacs -nw'.
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--Per Bothner
[email protected] http://per.bothner.com/
