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Re: INFO on add-ons


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons
Date: 04 Sep 2002 12:46:56 +0900

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>     Miles> I know that originally (in the days of the original emacs)
>     Miles> there actually were info files, but texinfo hadn't been
>     Miles> invented yet; how did people write info files then (by
>     Miles> hand?!)?
> 
> Been there, done that.  Texinfo is not an improvement, if restricted
> to generating Info files.

Not an improvement over what?  Writing info files by hand?  It seems an
enormous improvement over that.

> I wouldn't go back, although I'd like to go forward from Texinfo to
> XMLinfo.

Why?  SGML and XML are quite unreadable compared to texinfo.

-Miles
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