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From: | David A. Cobb |
Subject: | Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: | Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:23:00 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020829 |
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Yeah, I pretty much knew that. But I think you're talking about the difference between what an author writes and what we distribute. I agree, the contribtor guides should explicitly show how to build the documentation, what templates, etc. [like @copying] So, yes, I was unclear. Small parity error in cerebrum.>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.
-- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .
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