Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>>Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>:
>>> Here's where I'm a bit surprised... I'm not sure that new GNU projects
>>> should have to use Texinfo, but why not put efforts into improving
>>> Texinfo's HTML output?
>>
>>Because Texinfo is a barrier in itself, full of ceremony and heavyweight
>>markup.  The state of the art has moved well past it - modern formats
>>like asciidoc (or perhaps even org - others may be right about that)
>>are both lighter and more powerful.
>
> +1 on Org, Asciidoc, Markdown, or any other format that meets the
> criteria:
>
>   - Raw source is readable as-is
>
>   - Has free software tools to generate good HTML
>     (and we then treat HTML as the default output format)
>
>   - Markup syntax is not burdensome

Texinfo?

> Equally important would be getting a situation where Emacs developers
> can also easily edit the Emacs web pages at gnu.org (which by virtue
> of URL will always have an officiality advantage for developers
> seeking information, so we should use that advantage to
> our... advantage), by having those pages be generated from markup
> source in our tree.

You mean, like _all_ of the web presence of GNU LilyPond
<URL:http://www.lilypond.org> is generated from Texinfo source?

-- 
David Kastrup