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Re: prefer install.texi or htdocs/specific.html?
>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:
Alex> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> We should probably convert the entire installation section from the
>> gcc manual into html and put it in the htdocs directory. And (of course)
>> remove the info from the gcc manual itself.
Alex> This would be a big win.
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.
Alex> Better still, write this using sgml,
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?
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.
Alex> I now use sgml for nearly everything since it is so easy to use
Alex> sgmltools to convert it to html or text.
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.