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From: "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com>
To: Bob Weiner <weiner@infodock.com>
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Subject: Re: Should we convert XEmacs Texinfo documents to HTML?
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Bob Weiner writes:
>
>>>>>> "JT" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
>
>   JT> I, too, like very much the ability to view documentation in [X]Emacs.
>   JT> However, the limitations of Texinfo, specifically
>
>   JT> o the inability to do math, and
>   JT> o the inability to include graphics
>
>Both of these are of course possible in the printed form of manuals by
>dropping into TeX using @iftex markup.  In fact, the InfoDock manual, written
>in Texinfo, has nicely embedded screen shots in the printed form and
>hyperlinks in the Info form that when clicked display the screen shots
>using a graphics viewer such as xv.  A future release of the XEmacs manual
>will likely have screen shots as well.  We could probably inline the graphics
>in the XEmacs Info viewer as well with a bit of work.
>
>When HTML can produce the kinds of documents that Scribe could in the early
>1980s, someone should wake us up and then have look at using it as a book
>production markup language.

  Amen hallelujah.  Sorry, had to chime in here.  HTML currently sucks for
major documentation projects.  If anyone wants to work on an XML viewer and
a nice XML doctype, and a DSSSL engine to go with it, then _maybe_ we could
get something worth using, otherwise, TeXinfo is probably the best we can
do for now.

-bp

