Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Arsen Arsenović, Artem Kovalov, Ilya Yurievich, and Matt Trzcinski for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #Emacs, #Texinfo, and more: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Arsen Arsenović, Artem Kovalov, Ilya Yurievich, and Matt Trzcinski for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #Emacs, #Texinfo, and more: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Arsen Arsenović, Artem Kovalov, Ilya Yurievich, and Matt Trzcinski for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #Emacs, #Texinfo, and more: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

Sur la liste de texinfo, un type nous explique que cet hypothétique système d’exploitation GNU ne marchera jamais, par contre, UNIX ça c’est un truc sérieux.

#gnu #unix #texinfo

GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month including #Bash, #Global, #Guix, #GNULilypond, #MPC, #TexInfo, and more. Full details: https://u.fsf.org/3vz Big thanks to @bandali0 @bandali, all the devs, and other contributors!

[5/24] Le #format Texinfo est le format de la documentation du projet GNU. C'est un des plus anciens formats de type texte structuré, avec le principe « un fichier parent, des formats enfants » via des outils d'exportation. La version 7 de #Texinfo est parue le 7 novembre 2022. Elle permet d'exporter au #format LaTeX, Epub3, HTML, Docbook, info. Un document Texinfo contient des liens entre pages, lu dans #Emacs ou dans un shell avec la commande « info ».
Page officielle : https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

The fine gauche reference manual is not only available as html
via the web
https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/man/gauche-refe/index.html
but also as quickly searchable and navigatable info manual
directly in emacs.

#gauche #scheme #r7rs #texinfo #emacs

When I get a PDF manual, it's fine, especially for math-heavy content, but I can't access it in an instance from a new terminal window, and reading it via the commandline is hit-or-miss with lesspipe.

In HTML, unless it's all on one webpage (which would be heavy and take some time to load, considering how large it is), I need to look through the index file to see if there's a link to a section I'm actually interested in (and chapter titles aren't always the most informative of things).

So yeah, I really really like info, especially when it's done right.

#info #texinfo #documentation

#Texinfo has a *lot* of functions, and is the kind of language I'd usually get mad about, but I actually like it.

Like, 'info texinfo' is one of the few examples of well-written documentation!
I was able to find everything I needed to write and generate my docs in just a few minutes.

It was very nice, and goes to show that good documentation can sometimes totally redeem a bit of bloat.