I agree with your evaluation Patrice.
> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 1:56 AM > From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertu...@free.fr> > To: "Karl Berry" <k...@freefriends.org> > Cc: dim...@gmx.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org > Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:41:30PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > > Christopher, if you want to write full technical documents with lots of > > references, math, etc., why don't you just use LaTeX? Texinfo is not > > designed for this. Trying to shoehorn it to fit seems fraught with problems. > > LaTeX is not very practical to write program documentation. Texinfo is > not so good at math and bibliography. However, when you need both, for > instance when you write a manual for a program dealing with mathematics, > I find Texinfo with tex4ht or latex2html and now mathjax to be better > compromise than LaTeX as LaTeX is very poor for program documentation. > The html obtained, for instance is much more suitable when going through > Texinfo. > > -- > Pat >
