From:	luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu (Daniel Luecking)
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Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: Texinfo 3.12 ported to DJGPP
Date:	2 Jun 1998 18:12:10 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:


>On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jan Hubicka wrote:

>> > I don't know about any such browser, and I doubt if it is possible,
>> > even if you leave out many features.  Browsing Info files is a
>> > sirprisingly complex task, since the format leaves a lot of leeway.
>> 
>> shame... please can you give me some example about such complex
>> problem? I tought text is already formated and just contains links
>> with :: and nodes....

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>But most of the complexity is in finding the node, *after* you have
>gleaned its name.  The Info file can be with or without a tag table,
>it can be a single file or several subfiles, with another table
>telling how to find which file holds the node you are looking for.

It can even mix these things. I found (accidentally) that you can
concatenate several info files into a single large file and delete 
the individual files, yet still info has no problem finding nodes, 
even though there is a table pointing to individual files. (Of course I
have not exercised EVERY feature of info, so problems may yet occur.)

>                                                                    A
>reference can point to another Info file, which then opens the Pandora
>box of how do you look for Info files along INFOPATH, etc. etc.

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Dan Luecking                           Dept. of Mathematical Sciences     
luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu                 University of Arkansas      
http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/        Fayetteville, AR 72101

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