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Re: texinfo

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From: Mark Zimmermann
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 12:49
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I am beginning to use Para Mode of GNU Emacs -- a set of extensions to
Infosim which make it easy (or at least much easier) to write
hypertextually linked large documents.  (Para Mode is still in a
prototype stage; it's by Robert Chassell, bob@ai.mit.edu; the
discussion group is para@cs.cmu.edu; you can send mail to
para-request@cs.cmu.edu to join.)  Infosim lets you browse and make
use of a Texinfo document without translating it into Info form (and,
alas, I can't remember the name of the author of Infosim to give
credit and thanks).

So, re LaTeXiNfO, my main questions are:
 - is there anything like Infosim for LaTeXiNfO?
 - is there anything like Para for LaTeXiNfO?
 - what great benefits would I derive by going to LaTeX over raw TeX?
    (I am exposing my great ignorance here -- apologies!)

Robert Chassell has written eloquently about the reasons for wanting
something like Para Mode and Infosim; see the Para archives at
ipl.rpi.edu in /pub/para for details, or ask me if interested.

Tnx for helpful advice ... apologies for capitalization of alternate
letters in LaTeXiNfO, but I can't resist .... :-) .... ^z
(science@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
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From: science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: texinfo
Summary: comments re Para, Infosim, etc. modes
Keywords: Para, texinfo, Infosim, TeX, Info
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Date: 24 Oct 90 12:49:05 GMT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 13:49:05 1990