On Sun 01 May 2016 17:39:59 James K. Lowden wrote: > As far as I can tell, you're defining "best" in terms of the goal of > delivering a base OS without a troff dependency for manual display. I > really don't understand why you consider that desirable. I would like > to see groff used more, not less.
I've been using pdf versions of the man pages for a while now. They don't suffer some of the problems mentioned in this thread. For example, in the ksh manual you can find the description of "read" with two mouse clicks. First open the section "Built-in commands" (near the bottom of the overview pane), then scroll down to the "read" command and click on it. You can see what I mean at:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/WebManPDF.pl/man:/1/ksh Be aware this is very slow over the network, the server is only a few centimetres square with a little arm chip running in it. Its much faster on my main server. You can get a very crude index of all the man pages on this little server with:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/ Cheers Deri
