11 Mar
2000
11 Mar
'00
2:43 p.m.
Marco van de Voort wrote:
Why did the GPC team choose for info instead of Tex? What are the advantages over Tex? (One could have obtained info with tex2info anyway?)
That's the standard chosen for the GNU project. (I myself would prefer (La)TeX, too.)
From GNU Texinfo you can produce online documentation as well as
printed manuals from the same source tree. Meanwhile several such documentation languages exist, but GNU Texinfo was among the first ones.
One could consider moving to DocBook (SGML) which can produce GNU Texinfo (and TeX and HTML and whatever).
Opinions?
Peter
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