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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.



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