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Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html


From: lisa-asket
Subject: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:53:22 +0200 (CEST)

>From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
><help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html
>Date: 30/06/2021 17:36:17 Europe/Paris

>Jean Louis wrote:

>>>> In reality there is no valid reason not to use elisp.
>>
>> No valid reason NOT to use Emacs Lisp. Well, there are many
>> valid reasons for variety of people one important one would
>> be the familiarity to a programming language.



Have came to agree that there can be valid reasons.  But I got a suggestion

on using emacs which gets the job done and which was pleasant to me.



Have also learned to use `make` a little bit, which is not bad.

I customarily try different ways.



>GNU make is written in C but that's not where the strength
>lies, rather it's in the cleverness and practicality of the
>solution itself.

>BTW I'm pretty sure someone wrote or tried to write something
>similar in Lisp. That would be very possible if one felt the
>need to do that.






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