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Re: primitive documentation conventions


marcusd@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu (Marcus G. Daniels) writes:
> MD> I mean, you aren't thinking of requiring that the user have Jade,
> MD> are you? 
> 
> JB> No, we're not considering that.  It's unacceptable to require the
> JB> user to have Jade installed to read docstrings.
> 
> And what about the manual?

For now, the manual is in Texinfo, because that's the FSF's standard
format.  We could switch to Docbook, but there are no Docbook/Texinfo
conversion tools yet, so that would make info users (like me) quite
unhappy.