Re: Annoyances of aptitude (Was: Where are we now?) (Was: Bits from the RM)

[Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>]

On 2003-10-03, Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu> wrote:
>   I see.  It's a lot simpler, from the point of view of maintainability,
> to have a single user's manual for both offline and online perusal.
>
>   One nice way to make this less of an issue would be to rewrite the
> documentation in a structured format (eg, texinfo or docbook) and add a
> reader for that format to aptitude.  Unfortunately, writing the reader
> could be a lot of work.

Why not use the 'info' reader?  It's not optimal, but almost anything
is better than paging through a long text file.

Peace,
	Dylan