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Re: @ref without page numbers


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 01:56:05 +0200

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:41:30PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Christopher, if you want to write full technical documents with lots of
> references, math, etc., why don't you just use LaTeX? Texinfo is not
> designed for this. Trying to shoehorn it to fit seems fraught with problems.

LaTeX is not very practical to write program documentation.  Texinfo is
not so good at math and bibliography.  However, when you need both, for
instance when you write a manual for a program dealing with mathematics,
I find Texinfo with tex4ht or latex2html and now mathjax to be better
compromise than LaTeX as LaTeX is very poor for program documentation.
The html obtained, for instance is much more suitable when going through
Texinfo.

-- 
Pat



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