On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:47:52AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > > > On Jan 27, 2020, at 0:15, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:58:45PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > >> I have no idea what I am talking about, mind you, but maybe having > >> makeinfo call the appropriate mode, export the code block region to html > >> based on that mode and insert that html into the "general" makeinfo HTML > >> output would be the way to go ? Maybe not all the styles, etc., but just > >> the HTML structure (anything within <body> </body>) so that texinfo > >> specific styles can later be applied. > >> > >> That would require to be aware of what structure each mode gives to such > >> output so that proper CSS selectors are used (which is inconvenient). > >> There are probably more elegant ways to achieve that, though. > > > > This is not possible as makeinfo is not part of emacs. > > Then, I don't think we should have any qualms about adding semantic tags to > the code. TeX has plenty of things for math formulas, why not simply add > things in texinfo for the few core languages of the GNU project ?
It makes the code samples in the Texinfo source unreadable and therefore prone to error. If there is syntax highlighting it should be able to be done automatically.
