Re: Improve access to documentation in Info format

[Richard Stallman]

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  > To paraphrase, the user-facing features that would no longer work with
  > such "visibly wrong" translated-from-other-formats Info manuals is the
  > ability to generate output that looks similar in one output format while
  > looking different in other output formats.

Yes, that's it.

  > Agreed, natural markup may not be a substitute for Texinfo.  And yet,
  > there may still be utility in providing _best effort_ but "visibly
  > wrong" Info manuals for packages that use other documentation generation
  > systems (for instance, Sphinx).

I agree -- and isn't this what they do now?

That half-measured approach is better than nothing, but I would like to
see the adoption of a _good_ solution that does the whole job well.



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