On 5/12/26 2:27 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I understand. When deciding some years ago to take the least disruptive
path and serve multiple masters (audiences) by maintaining groff's
Texinfo manual in parallel with its man pages, despite some feeling on
the part of one or two vocal *roff advocates that keeping Texinfo was
some sort of tacit confession that groff wasn't up to the job of
typesetting its own manual,[2]--which is nonsense--that I'd face
challenges in maintaining synchrony and developing conventions to
overcome issues where the two systems frustrated parallel syntax.
At the end of the day -- and even at the beginning of the next -- groff
is a GNU package, and requires a Texinfo manual. This is a standard and
an expectation.
You haven't gone as far as some folks, who distribute man pages that
essentially say "look at the info file," but texinfo has to be there.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
