Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 10:07:12 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: csgr@omega.ru.ac.za Cc: gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Clark II), ache@freefall.cdrom.com, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-other@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dfr@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: gnu/usr.bin/texinfo - Imported sources Message-ID: <28166.779476032@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 94 18:17:27 %2B0200." <199409131617.SAA08000@braae>
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> Have I mentioned yet what I think of texinfo? You like it, right? I seem to recall something from you saying that you were totally and utterly enamoured of it, and often dreamt in texinfo macro. > Was there any discussion about bringing this in? If there was, I > certainly was not included. There was, actually. We had this big long inconclusive debate that raged for 2 weeks or more where we were trying to hash out our new doc format, and everything from SGML to HTML to TeX to troff was suggested, usually with great vigor, and then absolutely nothing happened. When the bmaking of texinfo came up again, I said "go for it - we've been back and forth over that bridge multiple times and nobody can agree for spit and the majority of us don't even KNOW SGML so even if it's fantastically superior it won't matter because none of us will actually WRITE ANY DOC in it. Most of us know texinfo, and it can be converted to HTML or troff as necessary. Go for it. There's established precedent in Garrett's stuff, even." Given all the fruitless past debate, I don't think this was an unreasonable call to make. Jordan
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