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Re: Documenting systems and networks- TeXinfo & HTML

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From: Garrett Wollman
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 03:48
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In article <1vluk9$eh3@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.eecs.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>The program that does the translation goes from the .info file to
>html, not from the .texi file, so there isn't sufficient information to do
>the @i() command.  Still, it's kind of cool: it works on the fly and runs
>off of the standard info tree (the same one Emacs, xinfo, tkinfo etc look
>at).  A better job could be done if the .texi file were the starting
>point.

Earlier this year, I spent about two weeks hacking support for a +html
option in an old version of makeinfo.  Unfortunately, it did not
survive the transition to the then-current version of makeinfo.  If
somebody were to pay me for it, I would do the same thing for the
current makeinfo.

If you want to see what the output looked like, you can point your web
client at http://trantor.emba.uvm.edu:9101/texinfo?Top.  (Warning:
this server is liable to go down at any time...)

-GAWollman

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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Documenting systems and networks- TeXinfo & HTML
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