Re: Emacs documentation. Was My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again

[Dave Pawson]

On 23/09/2007, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My offer is to convert the emacs documentation into docbook, version 5
> > and work with those interested to improve it/bring it up to scratch.
>
> It would be like trying to convert man pages into docbook. Why?

Because XML is more flexible and a more modern standard for documentation IMHO.

>
> I guess too many developpers actually use Texinfo to document their
> code, and both users and developpers seem to be happy with that.


You may be right. I think it is worth challenging though, otherwise
we'll never progress?


regards

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