From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: bas@astro.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:07:59 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3061.199603180908@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199603180822.DAA08368@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Bas V. de Bakker" at Mar 18, 96 09:21:52 am
>Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> writes:
>
>[quoted out of context]
>> HTML is irrelevant.
>> an info file, which is also irrelevant.
>
>Could you explain this? I think info files are quite useful. IMHO,
>they are easier to navigate than long man pages, whether those man
>pages are split or not.
It may be useful, but it's not directly relevant to this discussion.
We're discussing documentation for a Unix shell, so the primary
requirement is that we have online documentation in the form of a Unix
man page. Info is an unnecessary extra. HTML is even less useful.
Automated conversion to TeX or LaTeX, however, is of some use, as a
nice printed manual would be a good thing. (But it is possible to
simply print the man page anyway.)
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-18 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-15 23:56 Mark Borges
1996-03-16 0:12 ` Richard J. Coleman
1996-03-18 8:30 ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18 8:47 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-03-18 15:44 ` Vidiot
1996-03-16 0:27 ` Chris Dean
1996-03-16 6:12 ` Zefram
1996-03-18 8:21 ` Bas V. de Bakker
1996-03-18 9:07 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-03-18 19:47 ` Mark Borges
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