> i agree completely, and believe that the existing man page system is
> perfect for the task.
>
> now you just have to tell all those "we must have all documentation as
> HTML, because thats good (for some reason)" gnome people that ;)
> (i think kde is also in that camp?)
Thanks for the support earlier. This HTML business isn't likely to go
away,
it is very likely to become the defacto txt document replacement. It is
very
portable / platform independent and somewhat easier to navigate for
newbies.
I can't imagine it would take that great an effort to migrate man pages to
HTML anyway. It could prolly be done as a separate module that simply
formats the man page on the fly.
>
> (or if they must use SGML, they can use docbook <refentry> sections,
> which deliberately duplicate manpage structure)
>
If there is a mechanism to do that then great. Wouldn't want to be
reinventing the wheel after all this advocacy for not doing so....
D.
--
"Ah, how I envy the scientists of old. All the good inventions are taken.
Ah, to have worked in the day when the wheel had not yet
been thought of!"
Aristotle!!
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
