On Fri, Jun 27 1997 16:10 CDT John Goerzen writes:
John, I agree with the overall contents of your remarks. Just some
remarks:
> * HTML cannot do very much with formatting.
[...]
> * HTML cannot be easily printed.
[...]
> * HTML cannot be easily grepped.
[...]
I fully agree.
[...]
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> > "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> * GNU Info has an awkward interface and is difficult to
> John> search. It is also nearly impossible to print an entire
> John> manual from the files in the info director
> One questions remains: Is it possible to browse "html.gz" files _without_
> a CGI script with the usual HTML browsers (Netscape, lynx)? If so, we'll
> make it policy to gzip all html files and to adopt the references. If not,
> we'll have to install all html files gezipped--or add a cgi capable
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > "objections" this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have
> > to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > /usr/doc//html-info
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> * GNU Info has an awkward interface and is difficult to
John> search. It is also nearly impossible to print an entire
John> manual from the files in the info directory.
Difficult to search? Did you read its help page at
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A good format, but the problem here is that the LinuxDoc/SGML source
> isn't very useful by itself, it has to be converted to another source
> to be useful.
I don't see a big problem with that because, as I said, the conversion
programs are small and
>I would suggest either of the following:
> * DVI format. It can be converted to HTML (I think...) and plain
> text on-the-fly.
The conversions of DVI->HTML and DVI->Text produce results that range
from poor to completely unusable.
> * LinuxDoc/SGML. This is probably the best choice. It co
Whoa!
I kinda had noticed that some packages were going to HTML, but with a
new job and a pending move, I haven't been reading these lists as
closely as I probably should.
There are several VERY SERIOUS problems with making everything HTML:
* HTML cannot do very much with formatting. When a pr
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> "objections" this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have
> to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> /usr/doc//html-info/
Would not texi-html or
> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> One questions remains: Is it possible to browse
Christian> "html.gz" files _without_ a CGI script with the usual
Christian> HTML browsers (Netscape, lynx)?
I used to be able to read gzipped html files with N
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Christian> One questions remains: Is it possible to browse
>Christian> "html.gz" files _without_ a CGI script with the usual
>Christian> HTML browsers (Netscape
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