Robert Dodier writes:
> Well, if someone wants to figure out how to generate the Windows
> help format from texinfo, I wouldn't be opposed.
I just want to stress once again. Compressed html (.chm) is
de-facto help standard in Windows. If anyone don't believe this -
please take a look at the contents of Windows XP WINDOWS\HELP
directory. There is no serious trouble in converting Maxima
doc into .chm. I just don't know yet which tool to use
(I'm not ready to buy commercial one).
> But even if we display help text in some kind of graphical browser,
> we still need to have text-only help.
Yes. And already now we have both although some improvements
may be desired.
>
> There seems to be a suggestion here to change the storage
> format from texinfo to Windows help files. I don't see any benefit to that.
>
The main advantage of texinfo is that it is that it
can be easy converted into many other formats.
Already now we have almost without any efforts:
1. info - indispensable for pure text help
2. html - for web and and Windows and UNIX graphical
help systems.
3. Nice printout vis .pdf or .ps.
And after all IMHO texinfo is relatively easy
to edit and maintain.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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