Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote:
> >>>>"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.
As am I.
> 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 ?
That's roughly what the dwww does and what is being suggested - I don't
imagine that anyone wants HTML access only, as it tends to loose a lot
of the information in the original formats. Personally I find it to be
the worst format out there for documentation, but perhaps that's just
me.
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