[OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "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.