From rein@bliss.st.dsi.unimi.it Mon Jun 7 13:22:03 1993 Received: from ghost.dsi.unimi.it by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA10290; Mon, 7 Jun 93 13:21:57 PDT Received: from hp3.sm.dsi.unimi.it by ghost.dsi.unimi.it with SMTP id AA14886 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu); Mon, 7 Jun 93 22:23:38 +0200 Return-Path: Received: by hp3.sm.dsi.unimi.it (5.51/smail2.5/01-07-91) id AA14568; Mon, 7 Jun 93 22:20:16 MET Received: by bliss.uucp (V1.16/Amiga) id AA003l9; Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:08:16 CET Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 10:08:16 CET Message-Id: <9306020908.AA003l8@bliss.uucp> In-Reply-To: <9306020808.AA12644@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 1.11) Organization: Mi.Ne.R.S. Reply-To: rein@bliss.st.dsi.unimi.it X-Charset: iso-8859-1 From: bliss!rein (Reinhard Spisser) To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: Makeguide 1.55 available for ftp Status: RO Hi Dan (Dan Zerkle), in <9306020808.AA12644@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> on Jun 2 you wrote: > Thanks for your submission to comp.sys.amiga.announce. I need > you to fix a couple problems before I put this on the group. > > First, since this is new to the Amiga community already, the > "new features" section should be left out. If you wish to > include some of this information, do so in the "description" > section. In any case, most of this information is not important > enough to include, and simply makes your post longer. > > Second, you should list the full path name of the file. I believe > that it is /pub/amiga/dev/misc, not dev/misc. > > Anyway, fix these problems and send it in again. > > -Dan I`m sorry for this problems. Above you find the fixed version. BTW, makeguide is not new to the Amiga community. Makeguide1_49b.lha has been released in October '92 (but I admit that the new features section is too long). Feel free to modify anything you need. Thanks ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Makeguide 1.55 available for ftp TITLE Makeinfo VERSION 1.55 AUTHOR Free Software Foundation, Amiga Variations by Reinhard Spisser and Sebastiano Vigna DESCRIPTION Makeinfo converts files from Texinfo in GNU-Info, ASCII and AmigaGuide. Makeinfo 1.55 supports AmigaGuide(R) V34 and V39, adds ANSI escape sequences when --amiga-39 --no-headers is used and supports localization for hard-coded strings. Texinfotimes.tex prints Texinfo documents with PostScript fonts. A Texinfo document is written in a very simple dialect of TeX that is easy to learn and use, and it's specifically tailored for the creation of technical manuals. Texinfo focuses on logical aspects---so the @t{} command, which typesets in fixed width font whatever is in the braces, should be never used, and rather replaced with @code{}, @file{} or key{}, depending on the semantics of the text involved. This also ensures that each user can customize its Texinfo macros in such a way to spot out specific parts of a Texinfo file, or to set a different page size, text formatting etc (an example is texinfotimes.tex that prints .texinfo with PostScript fonts). Of course, the format has to be rich enough to express all the needs of a technical manual, and small enough to allow a decent translation of all the available constructs to plain ASCII (for an hypotetical hypertext viewer). Also in this respect Texinfo is an excellent balance. Full documentation is available on how to write a Texinfo document. It is written, of course, in Texinfo, and is very clear. You should be able to start authoring a Texinfo document in an hour or so. If you're used to TeX, ten minutes will suffice. This documentation can be found on most ftp sites which have GNU stuff. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Requires 2.04 or higher. In order to print it you need TeX (AmigaTeX or PasTeX). In order to print with texinfotimes.tex you need the PostScript fonts Times and Courier. HOST NAME amiga.physik.unizh.ch and other AMINET sites DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/text/hyper FILE NAMES mkguide155.lha PRICE None DISTRIBUTABILITY Free Software, distributed under the GNU COPYING License ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Spisser Internet: spisser@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it Via Licurgo 12 rein@bliss.st.dsi.unimi.it 20162 Milano BIX: reinhards@bix.com -------------------------------------------------------------------