Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:09:30 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112170930.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701121158.MAA09203@ravenock.cybercity.dk>; from sos@FreeBSD.ORG on Jan 12, 1997 12:58:44 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970112115944.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701121158.MAA09203@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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As sos@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > AMEN!!, we _dont_ need info files, make the man pages (as god intended > them to be) or at least HTML... Well, i think there's room for both, a man-style utility, and a fancy xref'ing utility, e.g. HTML-based. I usually prefer man pages for a quick reference. However, there are examples in the man pages that would better off in HTML. Funny, mdoc.samples(7) is a good example to begin with :), but things like the Perl 5 man page are good candidates for something that goes well beyond the limit of the historic man system. However, i would still prefer a quick reference for Perl as a man page, a terse one, just mentioning all the builtins and the syntax (but leaving out the semantics details). This would come handy for a quick reference if you already basically know what you want. If we prefer to convert all the .texi docs into HTML, i'm all for it. I think both formats are fairly compatible and similar in their goals (only that texinfo is older, from an era where HTML was nothing known). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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