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Re: [Groff] Introduction
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Introduction |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:36:53 +0200 (CEST) |
> > If a texinfo document appears as a labyrinth, it is badly written,
> > or rather, it has a bad structure.
>
> This is a reasonable, even definitive, statement. But I have the
> feeling that texinfo encourages such bad structure.
How do you get this impression? Of course, texinfo offers @section,
@subsection, @subsubsection, etc., but even -man has similar things...
> At any rate, there are a surprising number of texinfo documents that
> I find completely useless, although they seem to contain the
> information I'm looking for. You shouldn't need grep(1) to read
> documentation.
Well, the same is true for basically all other documentation. Finding
something quickly in bash(1), for example, without using search
patterns is, well, difficult.
Werner
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Ted Harding, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Ted Harding, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Introduction,
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- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Joerg van den Hoff, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/22
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/23
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Miklos Somogyi, 2005/10/21
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/21
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/19
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Larry Kollar, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Dorai Sitaram, 2005/10/20
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Miklos Somogyi, 2005/10/20