Re: Split man directory

[Juri Linkov]

>     Indeed.  But instead of `man', why not use the GNU-standard `doc'?
>     Thus, we will have
>
>       doc/emacs
>       doc/lispref
>       doc/lispintro
>       doc/contrib (for other manuals)
>
> This is fine with me (I agree with the person who said `misc' is better
> than `contrib').
>
> I just wonder whether the added cleanness of creating a directory to
> hold these four dirs outweights the disadvantage of moving them down
> one level.  If there were many of them, such as 8, then it would be
> clearly yes.  With just 4, it might be more annoyance than it is worth.

Some manuals are very large (e.g. calc.texi, gnus.texi).  It makes sense
to create a separate directory under doc/ for packages with large manuals
and split these manuals to smaller files.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/