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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (ZSH Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Man pages missing
Date: 31 Jan 1997 05:57:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigg1zi30i6.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Vidiot's message of Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:18:43 -0600 (CST)

 (brown@ftms.com) wrote:
> Then I must be seeing things.  The few .yo files that I sampled sure looked
> like they had flavors of nroff and TeXinfo in them.  It looks like this:
> 
> COMMENT(--- man page headers ---)
[...]

But these are the headers definition, I believe.  The text of the
manual is quite independent of the output format (nroff/texinfo).

> In any event, I know n/t/groff and can muddle through TeX stuff.
> I'll be damned if I am going to learn yodl.  To learn yet another
> text processor is just too much.

No, it's not too much.  What's too much is to have to handle too
different documentation format, and sync them all the time.

> So forgive me if I only send in changes to documentation
> via quoting the current text and suggesting changes.  If a format change
> is needed, I will just have to indicate what needs to be done.

As always, that's your choice; noone forces you to send documentation
patches.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
A: Vi is the God of editors.
B: Emacs is the editor of Gods.


  reply	other threads:[~1997-01-31  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-01-30 22:32 Vidiot
1997-01-30 23:14 ` Richard Coleman
1997-01-30 23:28 ` Zefram
1997-01-31  4:18   ` Vidiot
1997-01-31  4:57     ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-01-31  5:47       ` Vidiot
1997-01-31  7:18         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-01-31 15:26           ` Vidiot
1997-01-31 16:10             ` James B. Crigler
1997-01-31 16:15             ` Bruce Stephens
1997-02-01 10:09             ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-02-26 18:51             ` Juergen Erhard
1997-02-26 18:09               ` Uli Zappe
1997-02-27  0:11               ` man " Duncan Sargeant
1997-01-31 11:53         ` Man " Zefram
1997-01-31 12:36           ` Juergen Christoffel
1997-01-31 12:51             ` Zefram
1997-01-31 13:16               ` Bruce Stephens
1997-01-31 18:33               ` Juergen Christoffel
1997-02-01 10:03               ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-01-31 16:11           ` Vidiot
1997-01-31 16:55             ` Zefram
1997-01-31 11:45     ` Zefram
1997-01-31 16:02       ` Vidiot
1997-01-31 16:18       ` Lee Eakin
1997-01-31 17:24 Karl E. Vogel

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