Newsgroups: comp.text
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pricing and cost
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.180645.3394@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <657@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1990Dec4.130922.6961@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1990Dec4.133655.15047@noao.edu> <1990Dec4.211419.2599@robobar.co.uk> <1484@tharr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 18:06:45 GMT

In article <1484@tharr.UUCP> gtoal@ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>I've just discovered 'texinfo' format from the FSF -- it is
>structurally marked-up help documentation -- use the 'texinfo.tex'
>header file & you get lovely TeX documentation; use the 'texinfo.el'
>package in gnu emacs and you get on-line ascii help info.

There is just one problem:  there is no standard "texinfo" format.  Every
new GNU author adds his own wrinkles to it.  (This is according to the
author of texi2roff, which converts texinfo to troff -- she's not too
pleased with the steady proliferation of texinfo variants.)

When last heard from, the BSD folks were sticking with troff for manual
pages, but had decided to use a new macro package for the sake of much
more structurally-oriented markup.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry


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