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gnu: sicp: Add the HTML version.

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Message #28 received at 27153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Subject: Re: bug#27153: gnu: sicp: Add the HTML version.
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:27:51 -0500

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Also, couldn't the info version contain real figures (bitmaps)? Emacs is
>>> capable of displaying images; maybe the info viewer is able to detect if
>>> yes or no images are supported, and degrade gracefully to an alternative
>>> (ascii art) when support is lacking?
>>
>> You're right, I think they should be displayed but for some reason they
>> aren't.
>
> Could it be that they’re not installed in the right place?
>
> The Guix manual has a couple of images (info "(guix) Invoking guix
> graph") and they are properly displayed by Emacs on X11.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I think it's because the texinfo version has the images replaced with
ascii art, in most places!

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