GNU bug report logs - #33967
[Feature Request] Use proportional fonts in Info-mode

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 33967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, a <at> ajgrf.com
Subject: bug#33967: [Feature Request] Use proportional fonts in Info-mode
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 05:35:42 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>,  33967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 23:51:54 +0200
> 
> > AFAIK, there's work under way to improve the HTML output so that it
> > could provide the features we want from a GNU manual reader, and then
> > switch the GNU Info readers to supporting that.  But this is a
> > long-term goal, and cannot be reached by changes in Emacs alone.
> 
> It's easy to add HTML support to the Emacs Info reader
> with the help of shr.el HTML renderer, but I guess this
> should wait until the stand-alone Info reader supports HTML.

The problem is not to render HTML per se, the problem is to support
the Info features like index search in HTML, something I don't know
what would it take until we see what makeinfo emits.

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