On 11/24/2016 11:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Per Bothner <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:34:38 -0800
Cc: Texinfo <[email protected]>
When writing a manual and using references, they are rendered differently in
each format (info/html/pdf).
The emacs info mode does a better job with references, so they look more like
they would in html.
But it fails, sometimes spectacularly so, in some not-so-rare cases.
It definitely causes the text to appear not correctly laid-out,
because in the Info format the layout is done at generation time, not
at display time.
The truth is that the Info format cannot be "fixed" at display time,
except in very marginal cases.
Exactly my point. That is why we need to move away from the Info *format*.
OTOH, this Info junkie will complain vociferously if the next manual
for my beloved Sed doesn't support Info.
My roadmap is all about replacing the info *format*, while keeping
the info user interface (the emacs mode and the program) - but
re-implementing them to use something based on html.
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--Per Bothner
[email protected] http://per.bothner.com/
