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Article #72471Re: Plans for Texinfo?
From: Simon Leinen
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1992 12:32
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1992 12:32
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In article <1992Feb1.193638.9909@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl) writes:
I don't think it is a good idea to invent another X previewer for
dvi files. There are already lots of them, even PD ones.
Especially xtex (included in SeeTeX) is well thought out stuff.
The problem with using DVI previewers to read Texinfo documents is
that the DVI files don't contain any useful encoding of the document
structure (the node tree and cross references).
Xtex implements the necessary functionality in form of \special{}s:
These show up as buttons (red rectangles) which, when selected, warp
to the page that contains a given reference. Maybe the Texinfo macros
could be upgraded to generate these specials in indexes and @xref's?
The remaining problem would be how to handle @menu, which is currently
ignored by TeX.
--
Simon.
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