There is noting magic about man pages--what I'm trying to say is that, someone could start writing something similar to man pages, with all the detail or introductory / explanatory material you (they) might want. Maybe call them bman (for beginner man) pages?
Then a little effort by a programmer / developer to let the man page infrastructure work also for the bman pages. My suggestion is you spend less time discussing it, and get started on writing a few bman pages... On Thursday, December 29, 2016 08:38:28 PM Xen wrote: > Catherine Gramze schreef op 29-12-2016 19:47: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote: ... > That's not what you said, dear sir. What you said was: "Trying to wish > the man pages into something they were never designed to be is likely to > be unsuccessful.".