On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:25:27 EDT erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > I really like the GNU project's Texinfo markup language, which > > sets on top of TeX, but you don't have to know TeX. (I've been using > > Texinfo for > 20 years, but don't know any TeX.) > > > > I've written books in troff, Docbook/XML, and Texinfo, and Texinfo is > > by far the easiest. > > i never could get past the fact that texbook reeks of hubris > and nih, nor forgive gnu for using info as an excuse for not > having man pages. that, and the fact that it's at least 100x > slower than troff, and the reader requires cursor addressing.
I am with you on Texinfo, and manpages are vastly preferable over info files but TeX/latex can be used to produce some beautiful text. See "The Beauty of Latex" page for some examples: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex For a much larger example: http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/informatikk/2008/81971/uggedal.pdf
