Re: Documentation proposal

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:41:48AM -0800, Greg J. Badros wrote:
> > 
> > This is what Scwm does (though it builds sgml;  I'll leave writing a
> > TeXInfo generator in Guile for Guile as an exercise for someone else;
> > mine creates scwm.sgml using a Perl script).  I'm planning on making
> > Guile support extractable docstrings next weekend, if all goes well.
> 
> It's easy to generate texinfo from sgml. May be so herectical
> as to propose that we use sgml? The tools to handle sgml are a
> lot better than the few tools to handle texinfo (basically,
> with texinfo, either you use emacs or good luck).

Do you know of a utility to convert to texinfo?  I thought RMS had
posted asking for someone to work on this, but didn't yet know that it
was out there.  I'd love to be able to create texinfo from scwm.sgml,
but hadn't yet found the style sheet or script to do it robustly.

Thanks,
Greg