On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > >>>>"MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100:
> MB> <everything>->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route > MB> for those that want a standard interface at present. > I am strongly against having a _single_ interface to > documentation. Diversity is a good thing, IMHO, especially in this > case. As am I. > IMO man pages serve as a quick thorough overview and should be as > compact as possible. Info pages serve IMO a different need: they > should provide detailed information, perhaps for some more obscure or > advanced features. If _then_ somebody wants an html-interface, fine, > let him have a converter from man2html, texi2html, and perhaps > a2html. Sounds familiar ? That's roughly what the dwww does and what is being suggested - I don't imagine that anyone wants HTML access only, as it tends to loose a lot of the information in the original formats. Personally I find it to be the worst format out there for documentation, but perhaps that's just me. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/