Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:44:01 +0100 From: Adam Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:25:30AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > A good manual, divided in chapters and sections, with an index and cross > references is a much better way to structure the information in a, for the > user, logical way. Info isn't exactly ideal. Why not use a different solution, as we're starting over? I'm not interested to participate in a traditional ``Info sucks'' flamewar, so if people are continuing this, please do not CC: me. Please realize that the documentation is written in texinfo, not directly in the Info format. Texinfo is a flexible markup langauge based on TeX. In principle it can be converted into anything you want, obviously into the Info format (using makeinfo), but also printed output (using TeX) and into HTML (using texi2html). I believe there is even a converter to convert texinfo to the Docbook SGML DTD. The basic tools for handling texinfo are stable, free and widely available. Moreover, it is the GNU standard. Let's keep writing our manuals in texinfo.
