From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: TEX again and about SET-Edit
Date: 12 Dec 2000 18:06:38 GMT
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Florian X <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at> wrote:
> Why is there a *.texinfo format?

Because for the application it's used for, full TeX syntax cannot be
allowed. If it were, writing the .texi -> something else than .dvi
converters (e.g. makeinfo) would become a nightmare.

> I read, and it seems, that texi2dvi changes all @ with \ so that (la)tex can
> understand it.

No. texinfo files use raw tex and their own format file (texinfo.tex),
and that one's doing quite a lot more than just replacing @ with \.
texinfo is really a TeX dialect of its own, for a special purpose.

> Also if I want to use colors, I have to use @iftex.
> or it I want include math things...

Of course you have to: 'info' files don't support color, nor do they
have TeX's enormous capacity in formatting mathematical notation.

> Question: In SET-Edit SET wrote a inf file (I think also translated from
> texinfo) which uses colors!!! Green and white!! 

I think in that case it's not the info file itself using color, there,
but rather the info *reader* code built into SETedit. IIRC, he's
displaying hyperlinks and other active elements of the text in colors,
much like the info-mode in Emacs does it, too.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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