18 Feb
2020
18 Feb
'20
1:45 p.m.
"Greg A. Woods" <woods(a)robohack.ca> wrote:
Texinfo was a legitimate attempt to solve the problem
of missing tools,
and at the same time and tried (whether in vain or not) to improve on
what were rather widely believed to be major technical and cultural and
availability deficiencies in existing tools.
Well said. The markup language was clearly inspired by Scribe, which
was quite popular in Academia (at least) at the time.
As a *markup language*, I personally find it superior to anything
else currently in use, but that's a whole different discussion that
on TUHS inevitably degenerates into the current spate of ranting,
so I won't start on it.
Personally I still mostly use Lout these days. :-)
Wow. Is that still maintained?
Arnold