On 2022-01-08 22:43, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
... LaTeX, which has fantastic PDF support
I think we're seeing different problems. Mine was caused by a literal
U+03A9 ("Ω") somewhere in the document. The default LaTeX toolchain for
the particular project's Sphinx setup wasn't
On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:39:42 -0500
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" wrote:
> I recently spent time debugging why a major embedded
> project never came with a PDF manual, despite their docs being managed
> in Sphinx. It turns out that there's one instance of a Unicode omega /
> Ohm symbol in their
On 2022-01-06 11:44 a.m., Scott Allen via talk wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 11:28, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I open a man page, I scroll - done. I opened the
man page because I wanted to learn about the command whose man page I
opened - I don't want to have to learn about 'info' before I can
On 2022-01-08 8:39 p.m., Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
At least its better than Microsoft, whose embedded docs are
essentially just Bing searches.
Man RTFM. ;-)
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info was only ever a Gnu thing, and there are as many people who'd do
the opposite of what the FSF would say on principle. A major strike
against info is its reliance on texinfo, its own weird markup language.
texinfo also has dependencies that run into the gigabytes, since
installing texinfo
"It's complicated"
1. For linux, I'd refer to LPI wording about this.
2. for other l*Nixes, I'd consult their docs on their docs ( said in
"Austin Powers introducing Austin Powers" voice )
I do like info, but my muscle memory makes me man all the time.
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 11:28, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I open a man page, I scroll - done. I opened the
> man page because I wanted to learn about the command whose man page I
> opened - I don't want to have to learn about 'info' before I can learn
> about any other command ...
Well, you do
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 02:28, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
>
>I am updating my UNIX Command Line HOWTO. I have a remark in my text to
> the effect that man pages contain text stating that man is obsolete, and that
> you should use the info pages instead.
>
>I actually have not seen
I am updating my UNIX Command Line HOWTO. I have a remark in my text to the
effect that man pages contain text stating that man is obsolete, and that you
should use the info pages instead.
I actually have not seen this lately. What is the status of man and info at
the moment?
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