On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Robert Black wrote:

> On Jul 8,  6:40pm, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> > Subject: Re: ``RiscBSD Documentation Project''
> > > 	LaTeX or ASCII formats for documentation spring to mind---does
> > > anyone have a problem with this?
> >
> > Yes, what is LaTeX? :-)
> >
> > IMHO, HTML would be a better choice, wouldn't it?
> 
> Depends whether having hardcopy or hypertext links is viewed as more
> important[1]. Personally I'd go for hardcopy when I'm in the middle of
> partitioning my harddisk or trying to get X working, but maybe I'm just weird
> :-)

I would have thought we really need provision for both; this way
(if people don't know LaTeX, use ASCII and I can format it by hand) we can
create any printed documentation needed, and still provide the information
on the www, using LaTeX2HTML.

> Maybe we should compromise and use emacs info format :-)

Is that similar to TeXinfo?

    Yours Aye,

    Neil

* Neil A Carson
* Internet Vision Ltd.
* E-Mail: neil@ivision.co.uk, Phone: (0171) 589 4500