On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> It seems you don't get that my point is not about personal preferences
>> or feelings. It's about physical impairments (and there are plenty of
>> shades of grays between good sight and completely blind, where big,
>> good quality fonts matte
Federico Beffa skribis:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Federico Beffa skribis:
>>
>>> 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
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Federico Beffa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Federico Beffa skribis:
> >
> >> 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
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Federico Beffa skribis:
>
>> 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 wil
Federico Beffa skribis:
> 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
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Federico Beffa writes:
>
>> 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 po
Hi,
Federico Beffa writes:
> 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 manua
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Federico Beffa 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 g
Federico Beffa skribis:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Federico Beffa skribis:
>>> MIT Scheme is a complex system and without the documentation it's not
>>> possible to use it proficiently.
>>
>> Agreed, I didn’t mean to imply we should give up on documentation.
>>
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Federico Beffa skribis:
>> MIT Scheme is a complex system and without the documentation it's not
>> possible to use it proficiently.
>
> Agreed, I didn’t mean to imply we should give up on documentation.
>
> I just realized that its documen
Federico Beffa skribis:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Federico Beffa skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (mit-scheme): Convert to the 'modify-phases'
>>> syntax. Add phases 'configure-doc, 'build-doc and 'install-doc. Add
>>> 'texlive' input.
>>
>> Could
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Federico Beffa skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (mit-scheme): Convert to the 'modify-phases'
>> syntax. Add phases 'configure-doc, 'build-doc and 'install-doc. Add
>> 'texlive' input.
>
> Could you split into two patches: first
Federico Beffa skribis:
> From 5c2be0d7d628ba27ac1360cc8e998de68a505b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Federico Beffa
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:06:37 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: mit-scheme: Generate and install documentation.
>
> * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (mit-scheme): Convert to the '
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