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Re: Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs
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James Thomas |
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Re: Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs |
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Sun, 03 Dec 2023 08:55:43 +0530 |
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Björn Bidar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I have been enjoying the integrated way
> that Emacs works for many things but especially
> viewing documentation inside Emacs was especially handy.
>
> Some projects use gtk-doc. Is there a way to bridge
> the gap between their HTML docs and Emacs?
>
> I found gtk-look[1] but that isn't exactly what I want.
> Ideally something that converts gtk-docs to info would be
> great.
The website says that it outputs Docbook, and I find that there's a
docbook2x-texi package. Haven't used it though.
> Other related solutions for HTML based documentation might
> also work.
But I wrote this post mainly to crow about how great it is to have
python (sphinx) documentation in info:
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/Mar/creating-info-manuals-and-adding-them-into-emacs/
(Often with some bugs in the ouput that one has to manually work around)
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