Hello, On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > lot of contortions in the writing, it seems to me; readers simply have > very different expectations of man pages and Texinfo manuals. [...]
I think you are right, ... > [...] not that I would reject out of a hand a well-thought-out > design and implementation :). ... thus doing this right can be a lot of work. Yet I think it is worth it, but since I'm not able to actually do it (or mentor it for Google Summer of code ;-), I perhaps should shout up soon. > also don't necessarily want to be constrained to use exactly the same > words in all those places; terseness is necessary in --help, but not in > the Texinfo manual. Seconded. There has to be a way to define an aternative terse wording. (Similarly to the ``short title'' for running heads in other markup languages.) Stepan _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
