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Re: Latest texi/info to www
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Latest texi/info to www |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:24:50 +0300 (IDT) |
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> Going from Texinfo to HTML means you lose the ability to navigate
> throughout a multi-page document, but not other things. You lose the
> ability to navigate efficiently because of a fundamental deficiency in
> HTML, which is that it does not distinguish between `own' and `other'
> documents. This is why Info is still the most efficient on-line
> documentation system.
HTML also lacks the equivalent of Index-search command. That is by
far the most efficient way of finding something quickly in a large
document. With only simple text search, I feel myself lost in the
HTML version of a large manual.
- Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/17
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Robert J. Chassell, 2001/07/18
- Re: Latest texi/info to www,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/19
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/07/19
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/19
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/07/27
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/07/27
- Re: Latest texi/info to www, Harry Putnam, 2001/07/18