Re: Contributions to Guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Chad Albers writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And
>>>> it's non-trivial to generate any documentation (including texinfo) for
>>>> modules.
>>>
>>> Texinfo is pretty nice to use if you're an emacs user... in fact, if
>>> you're an emacs user, it's the best documentation reading system in the
>>> world.  But not everyone's an emacs user.
>>
>> I think Texinfo is OK even if you’re not an Emacs user, no?  Especially
>> with the just-release 6.1 where menus can (finally!) be automatically
>> generated.
>>
>>> If the html export was nicely themed
>>
>> It can be nicely themed.  FWIW, Gnulib’s gendocs.sh, which is what most
>> projects use to export their HTML to gnu.org, now includes a CSS by
>> default (see <https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual> as an example.)  We can
>> change this CSS anytime, and in fact, I would love it if someone
>> talented would come up with improvements!
>
> Relatedly, see this very conversation happening about theming in
> emacs-land right now!
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-02/msg00361.html

Fun, we should keep an eye on it.  The Emacs manual currently has its
own CSS, separate from what gendocs.sh does.

Ludo’.