Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)
>>>>"MB" == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100:
MB> <everything>->HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route
MB> for those that want a standard interface at present.
I am strongly against having a _single_ interface to
documentation. Diversity is a good thing, IMHO, especially in this
case.
IMO man pages serve as a quick thorough overview and should be as
compact as possible. Info pages serve IMO a different need: they
should provide detailed information, perhaps for some more obscure or
advanced features. If _then_ somebody wants an html-interface, fine,
let him have a converter from man2html, texi2html, and perhaps
a2html. Sounds familiar ?
Holger
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