On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:35:00PM +0100, szonyi calin wrote:
> --- Uwe Pross <uwe.pross_at_e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de> a
> écrit :
> > I did not say that I think the man page is not good
> > nor something
> > similar. The problem was that sometimes it can be
> > difficult to find the
> > required information in the page. But this does not
> > mean that the man
> > page is not good enough. In fact I think the fvwm2
> > man page is one of
> > the best man pages I have ever seen. However, maybe
> > you go with me
> > saying that finding something in a large document is
> > most times more
> > difficult that finding something in a small
> > document.
> > Since the fvwm2 man page is quite big it might
> > sometimes a problem
> > finding the required information in the time one
> > expected. This was
> > actually the aim of my saying.
>
> Maybe generating a html page will be helpfull.
> There is a program man2html but it generates
> references
> at the end of the file not at the beginning.
>
> Maybe the developers will consider generating a html
> version from the manual page.
That's was what I was aiming at when I suggested using SGML. From
the SGML source you can generate the documentation in virtually
any other format, including html, info and man page.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Jan 29 2002 - 10:39:02 GMT