[Bf-docboard] Feedback?

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Felix,

> > Can you tell us a bit more about Texinfo and how it compares to 
> > DocBook/XML? DocBook also seems to cover these points.
> 
> It is an older format usually used for creating 
> Info-browsable documents ('info' is a document browser), and 
> as far as I know an approach by the FSF to replace manual pages.
> 
> I've tried it out a bit for Gnuzz (see 
> http://nongnu.org/projects/atlazz/ ), but forgot > most about 
> it.  (I've worked on this project at the beginning of this year.)
> 
> You'll find out more on http://www.gnu.org/manual/texinfo/ - 
> in fact, all (or most?) documentation available on 
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/ uses Texinfo as its > source format.

Thanks! So TexInfo is the standard GNU documentation format? Do you
think it's as powerful/generic as DocBook and that we should consider
the switch, or not? Being able to generate 'info-browsable' documents
doesn't mean much to me - HTML and PDF do!

Bart