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From: | Stewart Russell |
Subject: | Re: Fw: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip |
Date: | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:01:08 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 |
Meg McRoberts wrote:
Just a sideways thought, but it seems to me that we should be modifying the man command so it can read HTML-formatted man pages.
isn't that the wrong way up? Converting from one arbitrary presentational markup to another is difficult to maintain, for someone will always find a new way to represent space between paragraphs, be it CSS or <p> </p>
Solaris's silent docbook to manpage pleasantly surprised me the first time I noticed it. Red Hat's similar technology would impress me more if they had more things with manual pages -- is it me, or does anyone miss the ability to do 'man <whatever>' on these newer distros?
Stewart
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