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Re: primitive documentation conventions



There are DocBook->html converters. Surely this couldn't require more
than some tuning of an existing converter for some format...

Jim Blandy writes:
> 
> marcusd@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu (Marcus G. Daniels) writes:
> > MD> I mean, you aren't thinking of requiring that the user have Jade,
> > MD> are you? 
> > 
> > JB> No, we're not considering that.  It's unacceptable to require the
> > JB> user to have Jade installed to read docstrings.
> > 
> > And what about the manual?
> 
> For now, the manual is in Texinfo, because that's the FSF's standard
> format.  We could switch to Docbook, but there are no Docbook/Texinfo
> conversion tools yet, so that would make info users (like me) quite
> unhappy.