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Subject: Re: XEmacs FAQ
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
>Vinnie Shelton (shelton@icd.teradyne.com) wrote:
>>     Thanks for doing this.  I have the following minor corrections to make.
>
>Thanks for the corrections, vin.  Speaking of maintenance, I think we
>need to decide in which format we should keep the FAQ.  The decision
>is obviously a choice between HTML and Texinfo.
>
>HTML pros:
>- Looks nicer;
>- Easy to put on the web, with lots of links.
>
>Texinfo pros:
>- In compliance with the rest of XEmacs and GNU documentation;
>- Can be converted to HTML automatically (the reverse is not so easy);
>- Better suited for documentation (we can add indices and stuff);
>- Easier to print as a manual.
>
>What we definitely *not* want is to have two different documents, with
>the need for this kind of synching.  Since texi2html conversion is
>trivial (albeit maybe not as fancy as the original HTML would be), I
>vote for Texinfo.
>
>andreas, what do you think?

  Well, another option would be LaTeXinfo and LaTeX2HTML

-bp

