[help-texinfo] Re: Magnification, math images, and figures

[Laurence Finston]

Apparently mailing lists aren't working yet.  I never got a confirmation
request for my subscription request, I'm not getting any messages through
`help-texinfo', and I haven't been able to access the archives for any GNU
mailing lists.

>     It's just that Texinfo already does so much that
>     such a package would have to duplicate.
> 
> I don't see a need to duplicate anything.  It just seems like the extra
> files (and work :) could and should be done separately.

I agree.

> 
> If you or anyone works on this and the changes to texinfo.tex can be
> integrated reasonably, then I'd do that, of course. 
[...]

If I ever get a chance, I'll try to do this.

>     Texinfo is the only way I know of for making  TeX-like HTML code.  
> 
> I know of three principal systems for convert TeX/LaTeX/whatever (in
> general) to HTML: tex4ht, latex2html, and tex2page.

Thanks for the references.  `tex4ht' and `tex2page' look interesting.  I like
the LISP connection with respect to the latter.   As I a non-LaTeX user, the
others aren't so interesting to me.  However, my main concern at the moment is
rewriting the Texinfo manual for 3DLDF.

> MathML is the "forward-looking" way to handle math.  
> There are plugins
> for Mozilla and other nameless browsers to handle it, although output
> (not to mention input) is less than wonderful.  

It would be nice to be able to generate math that's not in the form of images.
 I definitely won't be looking into this for the version of my manual that I'm
working on now, though.

>    [About gettext]
 
>, but here is the basic idea.  

This is another thing that will have to wait, along with other major tasks,
such as learning to use `libtool'.

Thanks,

Laurence