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Texinfo? Please no!
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Texinfo? Please no!
- From: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!CCF3.NRL.NAVY.MIL!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!gilson!61510.decnet>
- Reply-To: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!CCF3.NRL.NAVY.MIL!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!gilson!61510.decnet>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!LOJBAN>
Bob Chassell (bob%gnu.ai.mit.edu@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU) writes:
>Just for the fun of it I converted the first 5 sections of the draft
>mini-lesson into Texinfo format.
>Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
>produce both on-line information and a printed manual. You get a
>table of contents; and I created an index (five entries!).
[text omitted]
>I mention all this because I am urging lojbab to adopt this formatting
>language since it is so useful.
For those of us without access to such tools, a formatting language,
ANY formatting language, makes a file less than useless. Please do
NOT use anything but straight ASCII for anything that might go out for
general distribution.
Bruce