Re: How to convert multiple pages html doc to other formats?
%% Brian Boonstra <boonstb@cmg.FCNBD.COM> writes:
>> but the info command - I much prefer man pages to be quite honest.
bb> Amen, brother. Whose bright idea was it to make everybody learn
bb> some mysterious set of keystrokes just to read documentation? If
bb> I'm enough of a newbie to need the man pages, then maybe, just
bb> maybe, I'm enough of a newbie to be flummoxed by the arcane "info"
bb> system as well!
Have you ever considered what trying to read the GNU Emacs User's Manual
would be like in man format, with no indexing, no
chapter/section/etc. structure, etc.? That thing is 562 pages long, in
PostScript (using variable-width fonts and 8.5x11 pages)!
How about the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual? Ouch.
Man is great as a format for small reference pages--for man pages. But
it sucks for reading manuals.
HTML sucks almost as badly.
Info is great. Anyway, better than all the alternatives, so far.
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