Re: Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:23:16 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, Julius Pfrommer <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> 
> On 2016-02-11, at 19:17, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >   > Somebody already wrote a tool that converts the GCC texinfo
> >   > documentation to rst (restructured text), that can then be fed into
> >   > Sphinx:
> >   > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-11/msg01030.html
> >
> > Would people look at the results
> > and see if it has the features we would like to have
> > in HTML intended to replace the Info format?
> 
> I thought the general consensus was that we would _not_ like to replace
> the Info format...

No, you misunderstood.  We don't want to replace Texinfo as the source
language, but having an HTML-based documentation reader that is
otherwise as capable as the Info readers we have is definitely a
desirable direction.