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Re: printable online docs
Most open source projects (KDE and GNOME for example) seem to use
DocBook.
However, DocBook has many of the same disadvantages (and advantages)
as texinfo:
1. Probably not quite so easy to install the needed software on Mac
or Windows as StarOffice/OpenOffice/Word/RTF/&c.
2. Probably more of a learning curve than something like
StarOffice/OpenOffice/Word/RTF/&c (although I haven't tried any
GUI DocBook tools; I gather that LyX has some DocBook capability).
One plus of DocBook are that it is a well-documented standard (unlike
any of the variants of Word/RTF as far as I know). And because it is
XML-based, that should ease the learning curve across all platforms.
Anyway, the answer to the question that started this thread is
probably to get xconq from CVS rather than from a tarball. Linux
distributions come with all the texinfo tools; it is just that 7.4 has
bugs in the doc.