On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> One last quote from the Emacs info system:
>
>
> `makeinfo' Preferred
> ====================
>
> The `makeinfo' utility creates an Info file from a Texinfo source
> file more quickly than either of the Emacs formatting commands and
> provides better error messages. We recommend it. `makeinfo' is a C
> program that is independent of Emacs. You do not need to run Emacs to
> use `makeinfo', which means you can use `makeinfo' on machines that are
> too small to run Emacs. You can run `makeinfo' in any one of three
> ways: from an operating system shell, from a shell inside Emacs, or by
> typing a key command in Texinfo mode in Emacs.
>
> The `texinfo-format-region' and the `texinfo-format-buffer' commands
> are useful if you cannot run `makeinfo'. Also, in some circumstances,
> they format short regions or buffers more quickly than `makeinfo'.
Well, that doesn't say that they recommend the texinfo format above
e.g. HTML. I've tried texinfo a couple times, and it never seemed quite as
easy as it should be. Anybody have experience with Linuxdoc-SGML? Being
able to show it directly in Gnome browsers would be great, now that Gnome
is actually useable.
-Lars
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Lars R. Clausen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
A *real* smart bomb would call in sick, perhaps move to another country,
changing its name in the process, open a beach bar maybe and live out its
days in safe anonymity. -- Barry O'Neill in rhod
