--- Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> a écrit : > 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.
Sorry for being missunderstood. The ideea was using
html because it permits links in document and
easy navigation.(_if it's well done_). It's very
easy to generate a html page from fvwm manual but it's
useless as long as it has ~250k and it doesn't have
a link to every command inside the page. I just
generated a fvwm2 documentation in html (using
man2html) but the index is at the end of the page
and is pretty weak (you cannot access individual
configuration commands from it).
Not the format is the problem but the speed of finding
the information you want (if it's one big html without
an index or links to fvwm configuration commands it's
like reading the manual page, only the viewer is
different).
I hope you underestand what i mean and i think uwe
wanted something like this.
Sorry for bothering you.
I don't mind reading the manual page but at some time
in the future it could became a huge man page and
serching through it will became something painfull.
>
> Bye
Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
Calin
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