On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:16:50 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Sean O'Rourke <sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu> [2007-05-21 17:25]: > > David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes: > > > The big problem with emacs is that it looks like that most > > > unhelpful of "help" systems, GNU info. > > > > Meh, I personally prefer it to a wad of randomly-structured > > HTML, > > My ideal looks like this: > > * Manpage with usage/synopsis > > * For simple software, an overview/examples and full reference > in the manpage > > * For anything complex, a brief reference in the manpage and > narrative docs written in DocBook or something similar and > rendered to HTML for perusal > > You can generate any number of other useful things out of > DocBook, including PDF. As the sole format it would be hateful, > but as an option for printing it's handy, and that is a nice > thing to be able to do with docs for software complex enough to > need a narrative manual. > > Needless to say, very few projects attain this level of > perfection. > > The GNU crew openly *refuse* to produce docs you can actually use > (with the sole and lonely exception of the Make manual -- the > only tolerable Info doc I've ever seen). contradictio interminis info is so useless, that it is automatically deleted after installation of any GNU^Wutility that generates it and installs it. Even if you print out info pages, it is still unreadable -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
