Re: prefer install.texi or htdocs/specific.html?

[Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On 19 Sep 1998, Dave Love wrote:

> If I interpret this right, I fail to see the logic of removing the
> installation instructions from the distribution.  It would also seem
> wrong to make them available only in HTML, and not plain text.

That's not what I said. You completely missed the point. I *SAID* it would
be good to use sgml for these documentations and manuals. 
 
> The GNU format is currently Texinfo, for better or worse.  Much as I
> might prefer sufficiently well thought out SGML, precious
> documentation effort would surely be better spent just writing in
> Texinfo than pratting about changing everything (including providing
> people who [dw]on't use Emacs with an SGML editor).  How much Texinfo
> documentation have you written?

I DO NOT WANT TO USE EMACS FULL STOP. I have written quite a few
documentations, in man format, texi format and sgml format. I like sgml as
it's very easily converted to many different formats including texi, dvi,
ps and so forth. I have been sad enough to write my C.V in sgml, as I've
mentioned. 
 
>  Alex> and then we can convert it to html, txt, dvi, postscript, even
>  Alex> info etc. A big win.
> 
> That's clearly not an advantage over Texinfo.

That may be true. But I am mostly concerned with the ease of converting
information from one metasource to many formats. This is the best way to
get the word out to the people IMHO in the format that *they* like best. I
hate info files. Fullstop. 

> FWIW, the current sgmltools stuff is fairly grotty IMNSHO, and a
> Jade-based one isn't obviously going to have (for instance) plain text
> output in a sane fashion in the near future.

No. I don't want to use java (if that is what I am assuming you are
referring to) if I can help it. 

sgmltools has undergone development work and a new release will be out
soon. I enjoy using it. 

Cheers,
Alex
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