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Re: texinfo


From: Michael D Godfrey
Subject: Re: texinfo
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:48:07 -0800
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On 01/24/2011 12:46 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
man, 24 01 2011 kl. 00:43 -0800, skrev Michael D Godfrey:
> > Octave is a GNU project, and the GNU project uses Texinfo for its
> > documentation. 
> 
> You probably know that the "official" texlive distributors have
> decided
> to drop texinfo,  It is not included in their distribution and they
> are on
> record as "not supporting it."  Due to the texlive folks, Fedora no
> longer
> includes TeX in their distribution (as of FC14).  texlive runs their
> own
> repository, but it is extremely hard to use.  For now,  Fedora
> includes a texinfo that still works.  How this will unwind I am not
> sure.
Interesting! You should probably send this comment to the mailing list
as well.

Søren


I thought I had done that a while ago, but here goes again...

Michael


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