ready-lisp VS dpans2texi

A few weeks ago, I was interested to actually include HS as info files I found in GCL or the one I found in an old package by Wiegley, into some form in SLY or as a standalone package for reading in Emacs info. While looking for info files, I found this old discussion on GCLs mailing list. It seemed like they included the standard, not the draft. Note the mail by Maguire in which he informs that the issue has been solved "offline". Up to date as I write this, GCL comes with those info files.

Both cl-community-spec and nova-spec looks very nice; I haven't seen any of them before; however, I prefer hyperspec directly in Emacs, so I can read it with C-h i. I have found two different versions that work nice, one is by J. Wiegley in his ready-lisp, it also has asdf in texinfo. Another one is in GCL; I have just cloned the repo and pointed Emacs to texinfo sources. In both cases it requires the manual installation; but I prefer to not have to toggle between Emacs and Browser. Eww probably works, but I found it to be slightly slow; reading offline manual in info mode is just way too faster to be ignored IMO :).

Anyway, we do lack Common Lisp info manuals in Emacs docs. You can git clone from the Gcl compiler, or clone from J. Wigleys read-lisp, but you will have to manually install them into Emacs (thus far). Gcl have lots of parts related to Gcl itself, but the hyperspec works fine (just ignore gcl parts), while Wiegleys is just hyperspec.

This is what I done until now https://github.com/krdzo/ansicl. With the initial help of dpans2texi I managed to convert the source files to Texinfo and after that I did a lot of manual editing to get it all compiling with makeinfo. After that I changed some "headings" to "subsections", so it looks better when converted, cleaned up the index, added hyperlinks everywhere to related terms or to glossary and so on. All in all I made it "behave" as close to HyperSpec as I could.

You should not use GCL source at present. In GCL info/chap-*.texi from Bill Schelter is old (dpANS2 or earlier). dpans2texi.el from Jesper Harder is better (works for dpANS3). There is a copy from https://github.com/rebcabin/dpans2texi or other place. use: ELISP> (dp-tex2texi) => temp.texi

there's dpans2texi https://github.com/rebcabin/dpans2texi, which lets you convert dpans https://github.com/xach/dpans the tex source for the Common Lisp standard to texinfo which you can open in emacs

I use it in Texinfo format within Emacs. For me, the user experience is unmatched. See https://github.com/rebcabin/dpans2texi

What I found concerning the TeX sources: https://github.com/rebcabin/dpans2texi