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Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents.


From: Robert J. Chassell
Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents.
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:56:11 +0000 (UTC)

   I just wanted to point out that there are divergent goals being discussed
   in this single thread.

Yes, good point.

   > No, it does not.  That is the point of a CGI script.  You do *not*
   > have to download a whole document if the serving computer does the
   > work for you.

   Indeed, I was wrong: even a remote Info file accessed via ange-ftp
   can be searched incrementally.

Are you sure it does this efficiently -- that is to say, will I be
able to navigate through a complete `Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' in
less than 17 seconds, or will it take me 17 minutes before my
`Info-search' expression has got to the last node?

My understanding is that ange-ftp/tramp downloads the file or files to
the client machine and the search is done by the client.


   If the goal is to make documentation available for web browsers,
   makeinfo --html already does that.  Right?

No, `makeinfo --html' does a poor job; you cannot move around a
document well.

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