Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[tomas]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:13:49PM -0400, Robert Weiner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:38 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> > Other obvious candidates for variable-pitching are basically any mode
> > that displays data in tabular form.  And, of course, the manuals, but
> > that'll happen by itself once we move from .info to .html.
> >
> 
> Is this a serious statement?  Please don't do that.  I can browse an entire
> Info manual easily inside Emacs nicely by pressing the spacebar and delete
> only.  I can search entire manuals quickly and move across manuals easily.
> 
> Of course, it would be fine to additionally output html format for web
> viewing since the Texinfo/Makeinfo package already supports that.

Seconded. HTML is (more of) a rendering format. Info is more of a
document structure format. Rendering info to HTML would make sense
for display (for those who enjoy viewing things in the browser).
The other way around... not so much.

I know that this taxonomy is fluid (what is "more" rendering: PS or
PDF? What about SVG?), but I think that most would agree that HTML
is more on the "rendering" side than info.

Cheers
 - t

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