Daniel Quinlan wrote: > I think this has been mentioned before, but I'd like to propose that we > use the standard manual page format (not troff, though -- they will be > integrated into Stuart's SGML or at least reformatted in HTML) for the > specification of commands, functions, system calls, etc. I think it's a > reasonable format, people are familiar with it, and it let's us suck in > documentation with minimal effort. > [...] > The manual page format is also used by The Open Group and has been > adopted by the Austin Group revision (that also includes ISO and IEEE).
What are the GNU project's reasons for not liking man pages (or at least for preferring info pages)? -- Regards, Ben Finney, System Administrator PrintSoft Pty Ltd
