announce: TeXinfo version of manual.html
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- Subject: announce: TeXinfo version of manual.html
- From: edrx@... (Eduardo Ochs)
- Date: 2001年3月23日 11:43:24 -0300 (BRT)
This is mainly for the Emacsers using Lua.
I converted the "Reference Manual of the Programming Language Lua 4.0"
(the file manual.html in the distribution) to TeXinfo format, and I've
placed the resulting texinfo file in
http://angg.twu.net/lua-4.0/doc/lua.texi
and in my Debian package of Lua 4.0; see
http://angg.twu.net/e/lua.e.html
for more info on the package, including how (and why) to recompile it
on non-Debian systems.
My main motivation for texinfoing the manual was that I needed a
convenient way to place hyperlinks to the docs of functions inside my
programs. I first converted manual.html to a text file with
lynx -dump manual.txt > ~/tmp/lua-manual.txt
and for a while I tried to use elisp links like:
-- (find-fline "~/tmp/lua-manual.txt" "gsub (s, pat, repl [, n])")
that when executed with C-x C-e will run (find-file
"~/tmp/lua-manual.txt") and then (goto-char 0) and (search-forward
"gsub (s, pat, repl [, n])")... Now these also work, and are much
nicer:
-- (Info-goto-node "(lua)gsub")
-- (find-luanode "gsub")
Converting the current texinfo file to a dvi gives something very
ugly, though.
Cheers,
Eduardo Ochs
http://angg.twu.net/
edrx@mat.puc-rio.br