[OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

 Joe> HTML is a bad "source language"

 > [...]

 > Indeed.

 Joe> but it's a good language to generate from other forms.
...
 Joe> texi2html already exists.

 > But is GNU-deprecated.  I gather the new makeinfo is nearing alpha
 > test.  I presume it will still handle the g77 manual, at least, but
 > that work was emphatically not done with the idea of dumping Info at
 > this juncture!

FWIW, Cygnus has been planning to move to DocBook/SGML as a source
language, at least internally.  I believe the LinuxDoc folks are
moving/have moved to DocBook as well.  Free SGML tools have reached
critical mass; see

  http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html

Jason