From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19739 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:43:24 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA27134; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:28:58 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:28:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603160027.QAA24120@clusterer.jpl.nasa.gov> To: ZSH mailing list Cc: Mark Borges Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:56:54 MST." <9603152356.AA07279@suomi.cdc.noaa.gov> References: <9603152356.AA07279@suomi.cdc.noaa.gov> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:27:30 -0800 From: Chris Dean Resent-Message-ID: <"QcwZS.0.ud6.9jWIn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/830 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Mark Borges writes: > Has anyone seen the Perl WWW page lately? It's at > > http://www.perl.com/perl/ Yes, it's very good. > In particular, I'd like to suggest that the baseline documentation be > converted to something other than nroff, such as perlpod. This seems like a great idea. I've been writing a lot (for me at least) documentation recently using perlpod and am quite taken with it. It is so easy to make simple pages that I find myself actually giving my end users documentation much quicker than I used to. In the past I used TeX, but that made it difficult to distribute online documentation. The caveat is that perlpod's "intent is simplicity, not power", and that you can't do complex things. We should also provide a zsh*.man as well as a zsh*.pod for those people who don't have Perl installed. > And you get pod2man, pod2html, maybe even a pod2texi, for free. As of today the pod2texi isn't very usable. Chris Dean