On 9/25/23 01:25, Dennis German wrote: > I'd like to understand why you feel that > " ability to view the source as-is, with no rendering applied" > is important
Because that is how software development is done. It's all about changes to some kind of text, be it either program source code or documentation. Both is tracked via version control, and for each desired change ... well the diff of that change is reviewed. Having HTML tags in there is distracting. Furthermore, there are various formats the documentation is rendered as. Therefore, one needs to pick an easy-to-maintain format which is easy to be converted in the other formats. Having HTML as source format is definitely not a good choice for that. Finally, the GNU coreutils are just one package in the free software world, and it adheres to the GNU standards. Requesting to change the document format here violates the standard, and is effectively done at the wrong end. > The documentation at > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html > looks really good ! Examples and explanation. > [...] > From now on my goto reference. Thanks for the affirmation. Have a nice day, Berny
