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Re: Doc Tasks (was RE: docstrings in Guile!)


Clark McGrew <mcgrew@ale.physics.sunysb.edu> writes:

> The problem is that SGML is not richer than TeXInfo which has the full
> power of TeX behind it.

That is like saying C "has the fully power of assembly code behind it."
It is a mistake to think that the texinfo has anything to do with TeX
in the sense of it being a superset of TeX or a dialect of TeX. The
TeX underpinnings of texinfo are an implementation detail.  You can use
that for tweaking the presentation of a printed page, but you cannot use
that fact for writing documentation, since the latter have to be
readable online as well (in info and html formats).
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/~per/

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