Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote:
> 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 ?
IMHO, the info browser (in emacs or standalone) adds little
functionality over a plain HTML document, except that it is much
less accessible for non-emacs users.
I read info documents with "less"; the best part about them
is how they're almost completely plain text.
Hamish
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