Re: specification of LSB commands

[Ben Finney <ben.finney@printsoft.com.au>]

Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> I think this has been mentioned before, but I'd like to propose that we
> use the standard manual page format (not troff, though -- they will be
> integrated into Stuart's SGML or at least reformatted in HTML) for the
> specification of commands, functions, system calls, etc.  I think it's a
> reasonable format, people are familiar with it, and it let's us suck in
> documentation with minimal effort.
> [...]
> The manual page format is also used by The Open Group and has been
> adopted by the Austin Group revision (that also includes ISO and IEEE).

What are the GNU project's reasons for not liking man pages (or at least
for preferring info pages)?

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Ben Finney, System Administrator
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