Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 09:23:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us
Cc: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A more readable faq???
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996 fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us wrote:

> While GNU's info program works, I agree with Leath that it's anything but
> friendly. No flames, please! I find nothing about it to be intuitive,

Which is why the FAQ (which is the subject of this thread) is released in
other formats.  If you don't like Info, try using the HTML version.

> While this is even MORE off topic, I'll say it anyway:
> What I'm finding that I DO like, in terms of a documentation reader, is
> the way the on-line documenation is done in Elvis 2.0 (still in beta, at
> the moment). It's all in HTML, with highlighted words/phrases that are
> links to some other portion of the document, and Elvis understands
> enough HTML to be able to format and display (and print, too, if you
> wish) that particular subset of HTML. Anyway, just put the cursor on one
> of those highlighted thingies and hit ENTER, voila! you're there.

See above.  The same ``voila!'' goes for the FAQ in HTML.