Packages and other user-friendly things (Was Re: solve(x/sqrt(x+2)=1, x))
Subject: Packages and other user-friendly things (Was Re: solve(x/sqrt(x+2)=1, x))
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:05:12 -0700
On 10/29/09, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we follow what emacs/xemacs does with info files, we can probably do
> 2 and 3. Item 4 seems a bit harder, but probably because I don't know
> how the documentation stuff works anymore. (It used to be straight info
> files, but they're not anymore.)
The built-in documentation is still just .info generated from Texinfo.
There is a script which is executed by make to build an index
so that the blob of text for any given topic can be loaded without
searching for it. Bringing additional files into the help system just
means appending additional items to the index.
FWIW
Robert Dodier