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Re: Documentation generated from sources proposal
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:13:01 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com, gdb@sourceware.org
>
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:18:28 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > No, the format generated from the comments must be Texinfo.
>
> Are there some specific technical or FSF reasons?
Both. The GNU Project writes documentation in Texinfo, and if I need
to be responsible for the GDB manuals, I need to be an expert in the
language we use to write them.
> I freely admit a side track of my proposal was to be able to start writing the
> doc in a different format than texinfo.
I don't see a need to start that battle. Texinfo is more than
adequate for GDB, IMO.
> Still a .c-placed doc even in the texinfo format I find a useful improvement.
Yes, of course.