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Re: A replacement for Info
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: A replacement for Info |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:40:52 +0200 |
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Hi,
address@hidden (Karl Berry) skribis:
> What about just Texinfo, or Texinfo-as-sexps?
[...]
> Texinfo is not simple to parse.
To me, the ideal solution to this would be to have the parser available
as a library. There’s one in Guile, but it’s incomplete, and not
actually used by the Texinfo package.
> There are macros, conditionals, unusual argument parsing, and other
> source-level constructs to take into account. Plus, the Texinfo
> language is not static, so there would be new issues about "command
> @xyz is supported by program X but not program Y". That whole area is
> bad enough as it is.
Right. How frequently is the language changed incompatibly, in practice?
[...]
> These days, as I keep repeating to no apparent effect, another viable --
> as far as I can see, the best -- approach is use the Texinfo XML output
> as your input. This XML is an essentially complete representation of
> the input,
... then the above point about language evolution also applies?
(I mentioned Texinfo-as-sexps, but Texinfo-as-XML is essentially
equivalent.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/12
- Re: A replacement for Info, Karl Berry, 2012/08/12
- Re: A replacement for Info,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/13
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/13
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/13
- Re: A replacement for Info, Patrice Dumas, 2012/08/13
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Patrice Dumas, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/15
- Re: A replacement for Info, Nala Ginrut, 2012/08/14