I have raised an issue on the "yelp" bug tracker to contact the yelp developers:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/220 Please let us know if anybody knows any other way that we should get in touch with them. Also people may have other ideas to share on the best way forward on the "HTML-Info" question. Greetings yelp developers, I am writing on behalf of the GNU Texinfo project. It has long been a point of discussion in the GNU project and elsewhere about the limitations of the plaintext "Info" format (accessed with the "info" command, Emacs, as well as yelp) and why HTML is a better format. However, we have yet been unable to make HTML a suitable replacement for Info. We started work on a documentation browser that used the embedded WebKitGTK browser (just as yelp does, as far as I know). This program was fairly complete but has received no further development for several years. A video demonstration (from Nomember 2019) is available [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/video/demo.webm). Important features to get parity with Info browsers are index lookup and manual search paths for inter-manual links. It's unlikely that we would develop, maintain and distribute such a help browser in the Texinfo project, but I was hoping that support for local HTML manuals could be integrated into yelp or another GUI help browser. As the existing work uses WebKitGTK, just as yelp does, perhaps some of this work could be adapted into yelp (see [here](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/infog?id=d375f36148631ada30b1fa8e27215d94a341c3a6) for the sources of this program). This is an idea with a great amount of potential, as hundreds of Texinfo manuals are available for all kinds of software, including `glibc` and basic GNU system programs (see [GNU's documentation page](https://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html) for a few. It's likely that many users would be willing to access such documentation in a GUI help browser who would not like to use the `info` program to read these manuals. Locally installed documentation is vital, in my opinion. It is relevant to the versions of software that users have installed, is reliable and does not require network access, allowing users privacy and control over their computing. Referring users to the project website for documentation is simply not good enough. See the [TODO.HTML](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/plain/TODO.HTML?id=3ed4d45ed4ff089a3073fc3f43e0bdcb1232e395) file in the Texinfo project for more information on the issues involved. Please feel free to share your thoughts here in the bug-tracker, or on the <bug-texinfo@gnu.org> mailing list, as to how we could move this forward. Best regards Gavin
