Re: Enough....(was Re: Info sucks?)

[Daniel Patterson <danpat@cs.rmit.edu.au>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 10:10:54AM +1000, Chris wrote:
> 
> 
> However the problem still remains that some people find they cannot use
> the info system (for whatever reason), and feel they lose out on valuable
> information.
> 
> So why don't we cut to the chase and decide how debian can help these people?
> I'd propose we look at designing another way of accessing this information,
> something that is easyier for those at loss with info.  Ok, there is
> info2www, but this isn't necessarily liked either.  Is it possible
> to produce a new way of doing this?

I believe that the ideal solution would be something akin to what the menu
package does now.  Some sort of base document format which get's converted
intot he format of choice depending on what sort of doc-reading system
is installed.  Yes, it _would_ mean absoluted loads of work though.

daniel