On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: >> Texinfo is great for looking up pieces of information in a reference >> manual. > > You mean Info, right?
yes. > >> However, when it comes to reading a sizable part, I much prefer PDFs >> with a much superior graphic quality and scaling capability and would >> like to keep it (my eyes aren't in great conditions). I think we can >> drop PS. DVI is not installed. HTML is required by >> 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc'. > > One can choose the font family and size for Info documents viewed in > Emacs (or even in a terminal.) :-) I find that Info is much more > convenient when reading on a computer because of its interface to > navigate the document, search the indexes, and search for words. I know that you can choose font and size in emacs and console. But the fact stays that the rendered quality difference is very large. I do not know what to add... Many peoples claim not to see much difference. I and some friends do see a large difference. Obviously the visual-system varies a lot between peoples. As said, I agree that for looking up reference information the Info format is pretty good. > > The thing is, we could make an exception for MIT Scheme and provide PDF > and/or HTML in addition to Info. > > However, what should we do with the whole set of GNU packages? I’m > very much in favor of keeping only Info by default, possibly with a few > exceptions. HTML is not better than Info. Here we only need to keep it for 'emacs-mit-scheme-doc' to work. This is functionality for mit-scheme whereby Emacs looks up the documentation for the identifier at point. For PDFs, it depends on the type and quality of the manual. If it is short and/or poor, then nobody will spend hours reading it. But if the manual is good and long, then there is a chance that people will spend a lot of time reading it and it would be nice to have a good quality environment to read it (again, I'm talking about font graphics rendering). This is analogous to making public buildings suitable for people with wheel-chairs, ... may people don't care, until they are affected :-( Regards, Fede