On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:01:16PM -0500, Javier Fernandez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 05:09:21PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote:
> > troff. Ancient perhaps, but even today, nothing beats it, IMO. (The
> > TeX/latex
> > family seems to be the only serious competitor, and colleagues over the
> > years
> > familiar with with both seem to like them about equally.)
>
> What do you think of GNU/texinfo?
>
> PS: Don't misinterpret me. I think troff is ok. I see no need to
> move away from troff. I am just curious on your opinions on the
> improvements texinfo might give.
I personally dislike it, especially since the front-end viewers for info
pages are incredibly unintuitive. I'm unclear how widespread texinfo is
outside of the GNU world, but it seems still to be something of a curio;
and that manpages have more or less surpassed info pages.
-- Thomas Adam
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