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Re: SCWM's embedded docs/text proc benchmarks/perl's 10x faster than guile.

Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> 
> > Better to stick to the Docbook DTD in my opinion, and produce a more
> > general tool to create TeXinfo from the SGML. There is a reason lots
> > of people are moving towards using the Docbook based tools.
> 
> I agree completely.  Docbook is the way to go.  It can't be too hard to
> write a db2texi, and that would be far more useful to the world than
> hacking our perl/guile scripts to generate another format.

That's true; but there are people who would fix the scripts; is there
anybody who would write a DocBook to texinfo converter?  And in the
meantime, we don't get info docs.

Don't get me wrong --- I agree with you, I just think that if it's not
much work, we should put in a little hack to generate texinfo until
somebody does a db2texi converter.

Andrew

> Greg