From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: groff `Lk' badness
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100809192415.GC21616@iris.usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5F4A2D.9040506@bsd.lv>
Hi Kristaps,
> grohtml in general is pretty useless (even Werner has said so).
> Another part of the design of troff: it was never built for
> hierarchical output.
Ah, OK, so no need to worry about that.
>>I think we should have something similar to:
>> <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>:
>> <b>http://www.netbsd.org/</b>
> Ours simply formats as <a href="LINK">LINK-NAME</a> if a link name
> is specified, else just <a href="LINK">LINK</A>. I generally think
> that writing an entire URI in a browser is superfluous as it usually
> shows up someplace, e.g., the status bar.
Yes, i think you are right, that is completely sufficient.
Actually, my proposal would result in rather ugly WWW manuals,
which we certainly don't want.
Yours,
Ingo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-08 18:52 Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-08 19:37 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-08-09 0:22 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-09 19:24 ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]
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