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Re: Latest texi/info to www

From: Karl Eichwalder
Subject: Re: Latest texi/info to www
Date: 27 Jul 2001 11:25:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.105 
"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

> Going from Texinfo to HTML means you lose the ability to navigate
> throughout a multi-page document, but not other things.  You lose the
> ability to navigate efficiently because of a fundamental deficiency in
> HTML, which is that it does not distinguish between `own' and `other'
> documents.

AFAIK, you can use <link> (within <head>) to provide the needed info; if
I remember correctly, only lynx makes makes proper use of <link>
settings (I'm not sure what's up with mozilla in this area).

> This is why Info is still the most efficient on-line documentation
> system.

Agreed.  With Emacs 21 it theoretically should become possible to
display inline real images as part of info documents.

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