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>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <marcusd@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu> writes:
>>>>> "JB" == Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
MD> I mean, you aren't thinking of requiring that the user have
MD> Jade, are you?
JB> No, we're not considering that. It's unacceptable to require
JB> the user to have Jade installed to read docstrings.
Marcus> And what about the manual?
The Guile manuals are written in TeXinfo, and for Guile this will
probably not change soon. I can only see it changing when the
interchange between DocBook and TeXinfo is mature (it is non-existent
now).
With docstrings there is a chance of a fresh start, and DocBook tags
might be interesting. If docstrings make their way into the manual
(as a "quickref" appendix, for example) they would have to use tags
with no depth that map quite easily to the equivalent TeXinfo tags.