Re: INFO on add-ons

[David A. Cobb]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>    >Sure.  But we can't require Info pages, especially as rms has
>    >pronounced against it.  
>    >
>    Ugh!  What's the 'in' thing now?  Didn't the GNU project /invent/ Info?  
>
> The GNU Project centered on Texinfo, which is a markup language that
> enables you to generate from a single source file, output files for:
>
>    Info        for efficient online help
>
>    DVI         (or PostScript or PDF or ...)  for nicely typeset, hard
>                copy printing
>
>    HTML        for Web pages
>
>    DocBook     for DocBook
>
>    Plain text  for those who want that.
>
> Please, do not write an Info file; write a Texinfo file instead.
Yeah, I pretty much knew that.  But I think you're talking about the 
difference between what an author writes and what we distribute.  I 
agree, the contribtor guides should explicitly show how to build the 
documentation, what templates, etc. [like @copying]  So, yes, I was 
unclear.  Small parity error in cerebrum.
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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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