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From: Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr>
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Subject: Re: Re2: Building gnus-art-mime.elc
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>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto <jaalto@tre.tele.nokia.fi> writes:

    Jari> just a quick note to this SGML subject: I think people
    Jari> should no more write any textinfo of TeX or LateX files,
    Jari> whatever, because they are not portable. We don't have Tex
    Jari> or dvi here and I have no way of printing the emacs docs
    Jari> currently.  (if the docs were in html, I could do .ps with
    Jari> my netbrowser!)

Please no!

TeX/LaTeX/texinfo are the most portable thing I know of. Personnally I
really don't care for SGML or the likes, but there are good translators
available to convert texi files to HTML already.

Also, installing a complete TeX system is trivial if you use the teTeX
distribution.

Richard.

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