On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:37:21PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 (s/info/man/ an earlier post) "tkman" offers a very nice hyperlinked manpage viewer. much easier to use than a web page, since *every* bit of text is a potential hyperlink, something that would look very wierd in most browsers. > HTML anyway. It could prolly be done as a separate module that simply > formats the man page on the fly. man2html do ? even vanilla man(1) can do standalone html formatting (ie. everything but inter-manpage links): "man -Thtml man" > > (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.... unfortunately html has become a layout language, rather than a markup for structured documents (of course, troff was always "just a typesetting language" - its just that manpages now have fairly strict conventions) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
