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Re: project idea for texinfo project


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: project idea for texinfo project
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:50:43 +0000

On 17 February 2016 at 09:08, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> Per Bothner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> see attachment.
>
> thanks, I've included it in the ideas page.

Please update the text to the attached file, if you can. It is
capitalization changes as well as a small change to wording in the
second paragraph.

--- tt.html     2016-03-22 06:49:11.000000000 +0000
+++ tt.html.new 2016-03-22 06:53:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 <h3 id="texinfo"><a
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/";>Texinfo</a></h3>
 <p>
-GNU documentation is based on the texinfo source format (conceptually
+GNU documentation is based on the Texinfo source format (conceptually
 similar to markdown, but better for documentation). There are tools to
-convert texinfo into various formats, including pdf, html, and info
-format. The info format is used for reading the documentation in a
+convert Texinfo into various formats, including PDF, HTML, and Info
+format. The Info format is used for reading the documentation in a
 terminal emulator (using the <code>info</code> program) or in
 the <code>emacs</code> editor.</p>

 <h4>Keyboard-centric UI in JavaScript for GNU HTML documentation</h4>
 <p>
-The info format is very bare-bones (no fonts or images).  On the other
+The <code>info</code> program is very bare-bones (no fonts or images).
+On the other
 hand, the <code>info</code> program has a number of conveniences for
 browsing documentation, and the keyboard-centric user interface is
 very efficient.
@@ -31,14 +32,14 @@
 </ul>
 <p>
 The focus of this project is writing logic and event handlers in JavaScript.
-You may also want to make some tweaks to how the texinfo tools generate HTML so
+You may also want to make some tweaks to how the Texinfo tools generate HTML so
 the HTML is cleaner and easier to work with.</p>
 <p>
 Once we have a good basic browser-based documentation reader (hopefully
 by the mid-term), there are some possible enhancements.
 One is to generate on-the-fly a navigation bar.  For example see
 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa";>Kawa homepage</a>, which
-is generated from texinfo, but goes through some extra complex
+is generated from Texinfo, but goes through some extra complex
 processing.  It would be nice if it could be done in JavaScript and
 CSS.</p>
 <p>

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