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Re: INFO on add-ons


From: Robert J. Chassell
Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:23:10 +0000 (UTC)

    >Sure.  But we can't require Info pages, especially as rms has
    >pronounced against it.  
    >
    Ugh!  What's the 'in' thing now?  Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info?  

The GNU Project centered on Texinfo, which is a markup language that
enables you to generate from a single source file, output files for:

    Info        for efficient online help

    DVI         (or PostScript or PDF or ...)  for nicely typeset, hard
                copy printing

    HTML        for Web pages

    DocBook     for DocBook

    Plain text  for those who want that.

Please, do not write an Info file; write a Texinfo file instead.

The Texinfo file can be converted to Info, as well as to a form that
can be printed, to another that can be put on a Web site, and so on.
This is much better.

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