Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/02/09/03:30:13
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jason Kircher wrote:
>
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> > Of course, info is a pain to use...
>
> Only if you didn't take a few minutes to study it, which is
> highly recommended. It has superior methods of finding things
> quickly that will blow any Web browser out of the water.
>
> If you want a more graphic UI to Info, read section 5.1 of the
> DJGPP FAQ list, it mentions several Info readers with a more
> familiar UI.
>
> > Is there a program that can convert texinfo files into HTML
> > files - usable by lynx? I'd love to do that to ALL of the
> > texinfo files. :D
>
> Get the *d.zip files for every package you downloaded, the
> docs formatted as HTML are already there.
>
> But I urge you to invest a little more time in learning Info,
> since it will let you find things much more efficiently. For
> starters, read the section about Info in the README.1ST file.
> HTML format doesn't give you the index search or the
> TAB-completion on available topics, two of the more important
> features of Info.
It certainly grows on you. The principle nuisance (in info) is
the absence of any means of printing out a node, or a collection
of nodes. Here the HTML versions are very handy, as they will
adapt directly to the page size used on the printer. They have
the distinct disadvantage of requiring mouse use to navigate, but
are fine for continuous reading.
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