Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 20.03.2015 23:38: > Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > >> Thomas referencing reading the man page offline, made me wonder >> why you wouldn't read the man pages itself as they can also be >> carried around offline. But the striking point is "on an iPad", which >> doesn't offer you the convenience of a shell etc, but pdf is fine to read >> there. Also you can add comments to pdfs more easily that html pages >> I'd guess. >> >> So the patch makes sense to me now. It's just a use case I'm personally >> not interested in for now, but I don't oppose it as is. > > Well, my comment was not about opposing to it, but was about > questioning the usefulness of it, iow, who would > benefit from having this patch in my tree? > > I didn't see (and I still do not quite see) why people would want to > have separate pdf files for all the subcommands (instead of say an > .epub or .pdf that binds all the man pages and perhaps user-manual, > just like we do for .texi/.info).
Exactly. For PDF, a combined document is more natural and will hopefully make crosslinks work as crossrefs within one document, rather than links to external documents. I'd say that would make a valuable target. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
