manpage writing [rst, asciidoc, pod] was [Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?]

Paul Rubin no.email at nospam.invalid
Sat Apr 30 00:06:31 EDT 2016


Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
> As with all things rms, its taking him decades to realize this defeat
> [Latest makeinfo is 18 times slower than previous version!!
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-01/msg00012.html

Wait, what's it written in now?

> In the meantime the so called lightweight formats have multiplied:
> rst, textile, markdown, asciidoc etc

Pandoc can interconvert between most of those... maybe texinfo should
be folded into it if it's not already.



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