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

[David Kastrup]

Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> writes:

>       … And just in case that is indeed a concern – or becomes one in
>       the foreseeable future – may I request for a tag to be added to
>       Debbugs for the contributions lacking proper Texinfo markup?
>
>       I sure can promise to visit the bugs so tagged from time to
>       time.  (I’m not familiar with Texinfo per se, but I used to be
>       quite knowledgeable about LaTeX, and given that one incarnation
>       of Texinfo is nothing else than texinfo.tex, I guess it counts.)

It doesn't count apart from the AUCTeX keybindings for a number of
Texinfo commands being the same as for the corresponding LaTeX commands.

But Texinfo is really quite different from LaTeX or plain TeX or even
Context, and texinfo.tex is used only for generating the hardcopy
manuals anyway.  If you want to mess with the internals of hardcopy
generation, TeX knowledge will be useful.  Or for debugging crashes.
But not for writing Texinfo documents as such.

-- 
David Kastrup