Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:11:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> I was mentioning this because it’s an experiment that Andy Wingo did >> about 15 years (?!) ago. Andy wrote the Texinfo parser that’s now part >> of Guile, and then had a Guile-GTK program that used a tree widget to >> show the contents, had clickable links, text would reflow, etc. (See >> <https://wingolog.org/archives/2004/07/25/literate-programming-with-guile-lib>. >> Unfortunately the screenshot has disappeared.) >> >> That said, it surely is quite a bit of work, but I think it’s an option >> we could consider. > > This is an interesting idea. How far developed was the program? Is it > still extant? This was a pure Guile approach. The parser itself has been part of Guile since 2.0; it’s good but incomplete (usually it cannot parse complete manuals.) The viewer was based on Guile-GNOME, which was in the GTK+2 era I believe. It definitely wouldn’t be usable as-is today. Andy, do you remember more? :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
