On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/12/13 16:31, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it seems that a critical tool in our documentation infrastructure has
>> become deprecated upstream for some years now: texi2html. It seems
>> that it has become obsolete due to makeinfo has grown proper html
>> generating capabilities on its own.
>
> It is partially lacking in generation but nothing that can't be hacked
> around.
You you mean that customizing makeinfo's HTML output to look "good
enough" is feasible? I'm not familiar enough with our requirements
here to judge on that, so I'm curious.
>> What else keeps up with texinfo?
>
> The fact it is easy to use, has not many dependencies (perl) and it is
> exactly to the point feature-wise, asciidoc and kramdown could fit the
> bill but that would require conversion effort.
TBH, I'd prefer asciidoc (python) over kramdown (ruby), but that maybe
just me. I've only touched asciidoc briefly so far, and managed to get
somewhat useful results. I haven't used kramdown at all so far.
> Ideally time-wise it would take the same time converting to one of them
> or add an add-on to kramdown to parse texinfo.
Well, why using an importer for a generator when you can have the
input in the generator's native language?
Removing one conversion step seems desirable to me.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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