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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 17 Sep 1998 18:54:42 +0100
- References: <199809160822.BAA29254@cygnus.com>
>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:
Per> (I have heard rumors about people extending makeinfo to do this,
Per> but I don't know how this is progressing.)
It was merged recently, but I don't think code for the additional
Texinfo markup added in the last year or so has been incoroprated.
Per> The existing W3 mode can probably be used as a starting-point.
I don't know why only as a starting point, other than it being an
order of magnitude too slow (despite the best efforts of Bill P) and
not having all link semantics properly defined AFAIR.