Re: FVWM: [2.0.44] Bugs in the fvwm2.man page

From: Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:45:39 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Kennedy wrote:

> Fair enough. The problem is that if you're trying to find out how these
> things work from the man pages as they stand, you haven't got a hope!
> It may even be worthwhile having a separate man page for the various
> 'decor' items now, there are many keywords involved and in the mainly
> alphabetical listing in the (huge) main man page its hard to put them
> together. A more organic approach showing a typical set up and then
> a tree like structure of options for BorderStyle, ButtonStyle, TitleStyle,
> etc.

Fair enough ;-). I am trying to put together a decor_hints file to give
an overview of the new features, but it is taking a while. If anyone
wants to help, feel free. Some of these things are not easy to do in the
current man page setup.

Maybe what I can do is when I can write up something of a small HowTo for
the new featurisms, then someone might want to rewrite some of the man
page entries. Having fairly intimate knowledge of internal operation of
these new features sometimes makes it difficult to write objectively about
usage, it might be better explained by someone who is familiar with these
features, but from a new perspective (thus the HowTo :-).

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