On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:20:28PM -0500, John Gabriele wrote: > Anyhow, for my own docs I recently started using Texinfo,
Please don't :) > and I've > been quite happy with it. It actually surprised me to see that Debian > doesn't use Texinfo, and I was curious if anyone could explain to me > why the choice was made to not use it. I don't know about the reasons of the project but I suppose they are similar, if not identical, to my own: if localization is has severe limitations. <URL: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/l10n_rant0.html > states: --8<--- Unfortunally, the Texinfo manual states: "Texinfo has some support for writing in languages other than English, although this area still needs considerable work". That's why there is no big project of translating the manuals written in that format at this time. We will have to wait for the end of the internationalization of these tools (or ask the original documentation authors to switch to DocBook XML ;) --8<--- I'm under impression that this is still correct. IMO XML has come here to stay. Although it's often overy complex there is so much support for XML that it's more often than not feasible and it does support Unicode. I am not quite sure but I think I cannot write my surname in texinfo. Again, I might be wrong, all I need for that is ISO-8859-1 support. Then again, I don't write it correctly in my signature because localization sucks so much :/ Please correct me if/when I'm wrong. -- Ari Makela late autumn - [EMAIL PROTECTED] a single chair waiting http://arska.org/hauva/ for someone yet to come -- Arima Akito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
