Re: GCC works.... no

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
> Eh?  TeX is for typesetting.  You can typeset documentation,
> and many other things, but this does not make them one.
> 

That's a nitpick. Describe "many other things" that aren't
some form of document. When one writes things down, one
is documenting something, otherwise, why bother creating 
a written description at all?

> > The very name suggests
> > it is a derivative.
> 
> makeinfo?

TeXinfo.

> 
> > Also, if TeX accepts it, it  must be
> > a derivative.
> 
> TeX, with a proper set of macros - also called 'texinfo' - accepts as an
> input source files writen in '.texi' markup.  This markup and macros
> were written by FSF in order to use TeX as a typesetting backend
> for GNU documentation.
> 

No one said TeX wasn't extendable. Knuth's a pretty smart
guy. I own a couple of his books.

> 
> Anyway, this has really not much to do with Alpha.
> 

True.


Wes