Re: man or info?
Hi Karsten,
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:32:22AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, W. Paul Mills (wpmills@Mills-USA.com) wrote:
> > cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson) writes:
>
> > Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are
> > much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help.
>
> No, scrap the whole format. DocBook w/ mandetory manpages would be a
> good start.
>
> We hashed this all out about six months ago, Dec 24 (guess who was
> spending a lonely Christmas? <sniff>).
I agree on your point whole heartedly but I also think GNU will not
convert their texinfo upstream contents to HTML/SGML/XML.
Practical resolution seems to be autogeneration of HTML pages from
the upstream texinfo pages.
> My main arguments are detailed here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04038.html
Your crusade will not be successful without patch to the info-page
containing packages.
With "texi2html", it may be quite possible to impliment either prior to
packaging or as a part of install script.
Or is it done alread and I just do not know where to find these info
based web pages.
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