if you use the command line --man and --html options then
its already split w.r.t. option and operand documentation
ksh --man
wait --man
continue --man
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:22:15 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Ramsey)
wrote:
> The older I get the happier I am to be using ksh.
> But I do find I get increasingly impatient with the man page.
> ksh isn't just a shell any more; it's a full-blown programming
> language, and having all the documentation on one man page is a
> bit much. I am *not* advocating for a web page or an info document
> or for PDF; I love my command line and get annoyed when software
> doesn't have man pages. But I also think some attention to modular
> reasoning would pay dividends. Normally I have nothing good to say
> about perl, but it is a case where I think they have done a good job
> taking a large programming language and splitting its documentation
> over multiple man pages.
> I am wondering how Dave and Glenn would feel about having ksh.1 split
> over multiple man pages and if there might be any readers of this list
> who would be interested in helping with such a job?
> Norman
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