On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:22:22PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Thank you for the information. > > I was replying to Gavin's "makeinfo is not part of Emacs" as a reason to not > use Emacs facilities. makeinfo is neither part of TeX and still uses it as a > dependency. > > Also, as writen in the manual, makeinfo does not install the TeX subsystem > and there is no indication regarding what the minimum requirement is, just a > link to "texlive". Emacs is mentionned all over the manual and since info > manuals are only a requirement for the Gnu system it is unlikely that texinfo > writers/makeinfo users don't have a copy of emacs on their machines. > > Just like "Formating and Printing Hardcopy" indicates the TeX requirement, > "Generating HTML" could have a "syntax highlighting" subsection that > indicates the emacs requirement.
Possibly, but somebody would have to work out how to do that. I suspect there are other programs that could be used to do syntax highlighting, such as GNU Source-highlight (https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/). Maybe there are other programs that people know about. > But maybe Gavin was thinking about having syntax highlighting for all the > output formats that support color output ? Not especially.
