Of course, since this sort of like local screenscraping, formatting changes to the manual from version to version will break it. So I wonder: is there an alternative? Is there any short, downloadable format with some summary information that I could have users download for generating this info when they need it? I've seen editors etc. that know parameters types functions have, and other info - I'd also like to include version numbers, the basic description, category of function (e.g. filesystem), maybe first paragraph of what the manual now calls 'description'. And also: if I stick to just scraping a local copy of the manual with regular expressions, how often / likely is it that the format will be changed and require a new patch / regular expression? Any info on how to grab this besides scraping a local copy of the manual, or on scraping the local manual in a manner that's less apt to break in the future would be most welcome.
Thanks!
- James Coder