Am 11.03.2012 01:03, schrieb James K. Lowden: > Like everyone else, I normally use nroff and man(1) to view manpages. > Sometimes I whimsically use xman or tkman. > > It occurs to me that I'm using a bitmapped display on a 3,300 MHz > processor with quite a few fonts installed. I could benefit from troff > output and pretty, proportional fonts on my X display, if only there > were a viewer designed for dealing with, oh, dvi or ps. For extra > credit, the "SEE ALSO" references could be "hyperlinks" that would > create and load the referenced file when clicked on. Really, this > could be big. > > Is anyone here aware of a troff-ish project to display man pages? I > can name several projects, starting with info, designed to *replace* > man pages with something better? I observe we still have man pages. I > would be nice if we had something better than less(1) to view them in. > > A quick search of the archives doesn't turn up anything relevant, so I > thought I'd ask. >
Hi there are tools that convert the man(doc) into html inclusive hyperrefs. and there have been a lot attempts to replace man pages with something else but all failed so far i can remember. And to be fair it is very easy to write a man page, it takes few resources and you can see it actually everywhere. re, wh
