[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] Steve Shorter: > In short, the current man | less schema for viewing documentation is > preferable because it is simpler. I hope that it will always be available for > those who prefer it. Other than that I also like GNU info. I don't think that > system documentation is well served by "web technology". This was already discussed extensively back when we decided to standardize on HTML as the common documentation format. The point being, we want to provide a single interface to all on-line documentation, and the only workable thing is HTML, it being the only format that has converters from just about everything else. However, we cannot force everyone to read everything through an HTML browser, so we fully and exitedly support all the various formats in which documentation has already been written: manual pages, Texinfo/Info, TeX/LaTeX, plain text files, and so on.
Attachment:
pgpI9_oUngE5l.pgp
Description: PGP signature