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Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:13:06 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 1.12.7; emacs 29.4

Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:

> Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Following a discussion on emacs-devel, several people suggested that
>>> GNU Guix may be a a good way to contemplate this distribution mechanism,
>>> for obvious GNU-related reasons.
>>
>> As a side note, at the Guix Days Fringe of FOSSDEM almost a year ago,
>> we had a session dedicated to Guix documentation. I asked around how
>> people read the manual – via `info` or in the html – and everyone
>> responded 'html'.
>
> Is there a GUI info viewer besides Emacs and KDE Helpcenter?
> I think that's part of the reason why the answers where 'html'.

There is Yelp, which has support for Info manuals, but it's not
particularly pretty, awkward to use, and in many aspects worse than just
HTML in a browser.

-- 
Ricardo



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