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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:29:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin)

On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:08:26 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

EZ> What I had in mind was some evidence, even anecdotal one, that people
EZ> considered contributing a chunk of docs, but decided against that
EZ> because of Texinfo.

It's always been a nasty hurdle for me, discouraging me from writing new
stuff. I can never remember the syntax (I deal with Markdown and other
formats all day, and texinfo gets pushed out).  I also hate having to
list section names twice and the index and all the other nonsense.

FWIW, org-mode is all right but Yet Another Format. I think it wouldn't
be an improvement over texinfo for user adoption. Asciidoc, Docutils, or
Markdown seem much better if we want to make contributions easy.

Ted




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