Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:

> On 24/09/2018 15:12, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> It got bumped by more important things
>> and also because somebody else said they were going to look at it,
>> and then it got bumped off *their* todo list by more important
>> things :-))
>
> I sense the force calling me... Well, my plans were did not actually
> involve GTKDoc and the developer documentation, but rather the rest of
> the manual.  What I wanted to do, but didn't manage to do, was to work
> on a new table of contents for the manual (not so much for the developer
> documentation), so that it could be converted to rST and generated with
> Sphinx.  Converting Texinfo to rST is not trivial, but it seems doable
> via makeinfo's Docbook backend and pandoc.

Remind me, why would rST be an improvement?

> (I still don't like rST, but I guess that ship has sailed, also because
> Linux's scripts/kernel-doc has since dropped all backends but rST and
> man, so my other experiment of a Texinfo/Docbook backend for Sphinx is
> dead).
>
> Paolo

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