A dedicated ELisp package that can download manuals and install them in
Info format (which may require converting from another format) would be
nice (or more generally in any format that Emacs can use, which may also
include HTML, nowadays, tho we still need extra work to make HTML
manuals as well integrated as Info manuals).
Is there a good standardized place to store these? Does the answer
depend on format? (Note that there seem to be many doc formats in use
these days that are very likely to run non-obvious code in the
formatting or conversion processes.)
Once upon a time, I spent a lot of time & effort on centralizing
resources, but these days it seems like almost every machine people
use is either very personal or massively shared with a minimal
installation base (Docker et al excesses definitely notwithstanding),
so maybe it's safe, these days, to just assume personal repositories
unless explicitly configured otherwise.
I haven't played with it in a while (since I changed careers), but if
the above two concerns aren't problematic, it seems like some elisp to
drive pandoc, with a "default" library of sources, might work well
here. Anyone have recent experience with this? In particular, does it
currently produce decent-quality Texinfo?
~Chad