Hi John, > All thinks considered, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just write my own > man(1) implementation in pure JavaScript... I mean, I can't possibly > imagine it to be hard...
Humour aside, you seem to be mixing two things: front and back end. Back end, you've a `device' that renders to an HTML Canvas, in a similar manner to -TX100, and gxditview(1). groff and http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ offer options to kick-off gxditview for display. man-db will also open a local file in a browser for HTML output. Fitting in alongside those would leave the user with his familiar tools. Front end, you're aiming at a documentation browser and so want to find man-page sources, etc? I think this is less novel and users would enjoy an integrated back-end more, and prefer it first. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
