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| From: | Max Nikulin |
| Subject: | Re: Texinfo reputation |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Dec 2024 09:51:49 +0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
On 02/12/2024 19:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Max Nikulin Mon, 2 Dec 2024 10:00:56 +0700 Those who read .info documents may recommend e.g. pinfo. From my point of view, tkinfo is usually better than "info".Are they being developed? ISTR that someone said they were no longer updated.
I have not tried to report bugs for tkinfo (it hangs sometimes on search attempts, but I am unaware of really serious issues). It has some advantages and disadvantages in comparison to other means of reading texinfo documents. It is not perfect, but in some sense it is feature complete. I am grateful to its developers and maintainers. It is available in Debian:
<https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tkinfo>I was not inspired by pinfo description, so I have not tried it. It has some issue with maintenance and it has been kicked out of Debian testing. It is still available in current stable (bookworm):
<https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pinfo>In my opinion, it means that texinfo docs in general and .info format in particular are becoming less useful outside of Emacs. Formatting of PDF is too rigid. HTML files are either excessively huge or uncomfortably granular with enough nodes containing just a handful lines of text. Moreover, there is a fraction of users who prefers locally installed documents.
A container format like EPUB might be an option for distributing formatted documents, but the issue is decent free viewers for various platforms. It seems they must be based on almost full fledged web browser engines.
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