On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote: > IMO man pages serve as a quick thorough overview and should be as > compact as possible. Info pages serve IMO a different need: they > should provide detailed information, perhaps for some more obscure or > advanced features. If _then_ somebody wants an html-interface, fine, > let him have a converter from man2html, texi2html, and perhaps > a2html. Sounds familiar ?
IMHO, the info browser (in emacs or standalone) adds little functionality over a plain HTML document, except that it is much less accessible for non-emacs users. I read info documents with "less"; the best part about them is how they're almost completely plain text. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org